Earthquakes?

Don't be alarmed, we are all accounted for! Many of the team members experienced their first ever earthquakes yesterday, although we only really felt one of them. The quakes happened in Tanzania and were felt here in Nairobi as well. We were driving when the first 2 happened, so we would not have felt them enough to distinguish them from the potholes in the road. In fact we had no idea that it had happened. However, last night during our team time together the room started shaking a bit and we all realized that this was some kind of tremor or earthquake. The whole thing lasted around 10 seconds. It turns out that this morning's paper reported around a 5.0 earthquake in this area. I don't know of any major structural damage or injury that happened in Nairobi itself, but the epicenter was in Tanzania, just across the border.

So, a pretty interesting experience, but in case you are hearing it and worrying about us, we are all just fine.

This post will likely serve as our last before we arrive at home. Holly and I will be arriving in Madison on Saturday night, and the rest of the team will arrive on Monday night. But internet access will be sparse until we land.

So for now, thanks for following along, and look for more postings (with pictures!) as we return. Thanks for all of your support and prayers!

Joel (for the team)