OUR SADDEST DAY ..MOMBASA AIRPORT TARMAC 1964

 

OUR SADDEST DAY ..MOMBASA AIRPORT TARMAC 1964

Our PINTO sister leaves Leaves, all alone ...for Her Wedding - in Canada..
     

Those who sow in TEARS  shall reap rejoicing  !  I am glad your young friends came to visit you.

Yvette  Do Not be sad    too long -recalling all this         

- feel the JOY God means us to have..as we keep our Next Life always before us..

      My son born 1967 is visiting after a year..  Nothing like face to face ..bantering and teasing    .. his Brother 11 months older  is here too

 they were like twins ..and they  stay close  one works in NYCity the other   in  San Francisco ..

         

Yvette Writes:

               

I Did the same, Hazel. I cried all the way from Nairobi to Cairo.

 Met a lovely lady from Tasmania who tried to console me. She cried too , in consoling me, because she had just said goodbye to her son in South Africa. We corresponded for some years thereafter.

 Mummy screamed ‘don’t go,’ in tears at the airport in Mombasa, and shouted my name on the top of her voice , and would not let go of my hand and I almost missed the plane.  Everyone was at the airport including our bishop , Butler, and many nuns and priest friends who had come to bid Mike and me farewell. What an event. Then I broke down in the plane. History was made.

Those were the days my friend, those were the days.

Here I am today, flying solo, bewildered and lost. Ha.

Love.

Yvette

I am smiling   but as the plane took off     I WEPT LOUDLY as Never before or since...!  

 It was the beginning of Her ( and my parentsand brothers )  Journey into  British Columbia  -- the Far far West North West of  Newly Independent   KENYA   

I was to follow to ten years later  with my own family   in The Eastern Atlantic Seaboard.