What a Morning we had

So this mornig started with a shrill scream from one of our team members.  most of us thought it was a snake, but it ended up being her shower knob exploding in her hand and hot water shooting out of the shower.  The only thing she knew to do was leave and shut the door and scream for help.  This worked well until the bathroom filled with water and it started pouring into her room.  And yes, after her room, it started pouring into the hallway.  At this point the maintenance crew had come and looked totally confused.

One of our team members, Joe, threw on his swim shorts and went climbing the water tower outside the rooms to see if he could locate a shutoff valve.  With the way they build structures in Kenya, this was not smart.  He did make it down OK.  He then went back into the disaster area and into the shower.  With water gushing out onto him, he decided to stick his finger in the hole to plug it up. (I am envisioning a little boy by a dike in Amsterdam)  Well, the pressure was too much so he grabs the nearest shampoo bottle (travel size) and shoves it into the hole.  Hallelujah, it worked.  We couldn't believe it.  The maintenance came later and fixed it and the house keeping crew cleaned up the mess.  Oh! Did I mention that this ALL happened at 5:32 a.m. with the electricity off so everyone was running around with headlamps on. 

I guess every journey has to have one of these.  We are know different and are following the 2 simple rules:  (1) Be flexible and now waterproof, and (2) refer to rule #1.

Hope you enjoy.