Siddalls in Kenya: My Boys Birthday Nine in Kenya

April 19th, 2012 and my little guy is growing up! I am not a sentimental guy (as you all know) but I have to admit seeing the changes in him. He is strong, healthy and has a good critical thought process in his little brain. (Must be from his beautiful Mommy). Alex and I had a great day visiting a place called Umbrella Falls that is about thirty five minuets out of Eldoret. The main run off of the falls has been diverted to create a small power station. This station albeit small probably provides electricity for about 500 homes. See pictures below. The falls are quite impressive, roughly 80 feet high and what is really cool is that you can walk in and around to get behind them. The overhang is spectacular with a interesting geological layering. Once you travel to the top portion of the falls and look down to where you hence came the top geological is impressive also. This all married in well with Alex's home schooling as we are doing a power point presentation on rocks and minerals.

Studious

Alex had his friend Otte over for a sleep over (pre-birthday crazy)
The boys had a great time and made it till about 11:00pm. For a couple of nine year old boys they listened to the Alpha fairly well

This is the beginning of our walk at Umbrella Falls. This trough is the beginning of the Aqua duct that feeds the power station.

After a steep walk along the Aqua duct we arrived at the power station below. Although it is no "Seven Sisters" damn it does provide for about 500 homes and was fairly well maintained.

Approaching the falls was impressive. Note our guide at the bottom right for perspective. These were some pretty #%!@* big falls!

We are walking through the under hang approaching the area where you are looking through the falls from the inside.

Graffiti is everywhere in the world. Kind of like Coca-Cola. The Gods Must Be Angry! Still this was pretty coincidental on the boys ninth! We had a good laugh.

This is behind the falls looking out.

As much as this country is a shit hole these moments are extraordinary!

Alex "pocketing" a sample for his geology presentation.

This is on top of the falls. Note the extraordinary geological formations. (At least for those who may be into it)

OK...Mommy should probably not see this one. Alex at the edge looking way down over Umbrella Falls!

As we ended our day we also came across some pumice. We saw Slate, Marble, Granite, Limestone, Chalk,Conglomerate, Tillite, so a little of the three categories.