Talitha Kum and Thomson's Falls

We visited a special school on Saturday, May 25th, called Talitha Kum. The name comes from the words Jesus said to Jairus' daughter when he raised her from the dead. The children here have certainly been raised from the dead, as they are orphans as well as all being HIV-positive.
The grounds are very well kept, and it is the finest compound we have seen so far in Kenya, even better than the PACE school.
There are 74 children in residence, and there is no photography allowed on the grounds. A girl's school was touring there at the same time as we were. The director said they get a lot of support from the community, which sure is heartening to hear.
We started at the main building, which has an inner grassy courtyard and very well appointed dorms for the children. There are other dorms not attached to the main building, as well as gardens and sheds for raising chickens, sheep, goats, and rabbits. The children crowded around us as we toured and we held hands as we saw the sights.
We made balloon hats for them just as we did for the Kauka kids, and then they sang us a song of thanks. Our spokesman choked up as he expressed how touched we all were at their hospitality.
Just across the road from Talitha Kum is Nyahururu's major tourist attraction, Thomson's Falls. According to Wikipedia, the 74 metre falls are on the Ewaso Ng'iro river. The first white man to see them, Joseph Thomson, named them after his father in 1883 He was a Scottish geologist and naturalist who was also the first European. to walk from Mombasa to Lake Victoria in the early 1800's.

Visitors to the sight can view them from above or climb down to the bottom. I went on down with the rest of the group, but it was a long trip back up.
(Pant, gasp, wheeze!)
The sight certainly is worth it, but the steps on the way down have seen a lot of hard use, and peter out about a third of the way from the bottom. The rest of the way a person has to scramble over rocks made slimy by a combination of the dirt on the ground and the mist coming from the waterfall.
There was a woman training for the marathon (A Kenyan marathon runner? Imagine that! Heh.) who was actually running down and then up these stairs, not once, but a number of times.
Man, am I old.