Family Trip, part 2
The second half of my family’s visit was spent in a great house on Tiwi Beach, south of Mombassa. After the first week of excitement and adventure, the second week was filled with heavenly relaxation. Tiwi is known for being calm, beautiful and not filled with hawkers (also called beach boys). For the most part the only people who came were selling fruit, vegetables and seafood…we happily partook of their goods. The Indian Ocean is beautiful and so warm.
In the mornings and evening the tide would go far out and you could walk out into the water examining the multitude of wildlife. One morning Mark, Courtney and Mom and Dad went out during sunrise and saw lots of beautiful crabs and brittle stars.
Another day we took a trip to Wasini Island. There we did some snorkeling, took a cool boat ride and had an amazing, amazing, amazing dinner where the STARTER was an enormous bowl of fresh crabs. My mom brought along one of my old masks that has lenses in it. Since Mark and I have almost the same prescription we could share it and see all the cool fish. Apparently Mark hadn’t been snorkeling in years and had a great time. Get a load of the three dorks in action!! 
That week we also got to see Jaron who came and spent 2 nights with us. After getting to see his family it was great to have him with mine. 
Although not the same as Maho or Starlight, we all had a great time. The only downside was that at the end of the week we all had to say goodbye. It will be at least 6 months till we are all together again (hopefully we’ll all be visiting Courtney and Arthur in Tanzania then). Fortunately Mom and Lucy will be sending us letters to keep us abreast of all the goings on at home!
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