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About manns7worldtour

A Black Young Family Travelling around the world for 5yrs with 4 of their young kids. Father is a Chiropractor and mother homeschools their kids while on the road. They have done Southern Africa, Western Africa, East Africa....now heading to Asia...And on and on...
May22

Our Journey out of Nairobi

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Today we are all packed up ready to say goodbye to Nairobi. (May 21st 2015)

We met our nairobi landlord and made sure all bills are paid and handed the keys to her.
It was defiantly a great place to stay and the apartment was really nice it’s a 3 bedroom, staff quaters and 4 bathrooms. Pretty awesome for our large family.

So after all our 11 check in bags are packed into the van that was taking us to the airport we left our apartment at 4:45pm…the traffic was so horrible I could not believe a trip that usually takes us 30min, now took us 3 and a half hours. So be warned when going to the airport in Nairobi to catch a flight give yourself at least 4 hours drive time.

So we made it onto our flight. Right now I am blogging straight from Dubai airport waiting to connect our flight to bangkok.

Oh check this out, we have 18 bags
total in our possession. So we said instead of the 18 kids and counting like the Duggars we can do 18 bags and counting…lol!!!!

Bye bye Nairobi Kenya hello Asia!!!!

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May21

Last Day in Nairobi Fun

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Today is our last day in Nairobi and the kids decided to do a star jump to comormirate the nairobi stay.

It seem to for the kids but I was super scared so did not try.

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May21

An Emotional Day for the kids

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Today was a little emotional as the kids said goodbye to their super nanny Janet who is returning back to Ghana.

Janet came to stay with us from Ghana while in Nairobi. (We could do that easily because she did not require any visa and air ticket was cheap at that time).

And of course the kids miss her a lot and I needed some helping hands with the kids,new country and homeschooling and taking care of the house.

Am so gratful she was able to come and assist me and also love on the girls.

Today she left at 7am heading back to Ghana as we leave in  the evening heading to Bangkok. We will surely miss Janet. Kids had teary eyes.

Janet has been with us and helping take care of the kids since 2006 (that’s about 9yrs ) and she has now become a part of our family. We will all miss her. But she is going back to Ghana so she can go back to school which we are assisting her to get her education and she is excited about that.

Great helpers are definitely hard to come by so Janet is surly a keeper for us. She still takes care of our house in Ghana. 

We are truly blessed to have her in our lives.

Safe travels Janet and will see you soon.

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May21

When you Plan ahead

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Most people keep asking how I am able to stay and look calm travelling around the world with 4 young kids and a husband( he is a kid too, so that’s 5kids) my answer is always the same…plan ahead, days before your trip.

As am sitting here with my 4 young kids at planet yoghurt just chilling and enjoying every minute of Nairobi before we leave for the airport in 4 hours. 

Am all calm and packed and now just letting the time pass before we depart to Bangkok.

And we all checked in online so no  stress gurantee…

Super excited and grateful for a great 3 months exploration for our family here in Nairobi.

I hope Asia is ready for the Manns clan because we rock it in every country.

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May20

Amazing Life Long Friends

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And the party continues on and on…

As we are leaving our amazing friends that we have made in Nairobi decided to have a go away party just for us. It was really nice of them to do that for us.

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While we had a great time at the party all the kids decided to perform a dance program for us and it was super exciting watching all our kids create great memories and bonding for Life.

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Our kids have made Friends for Life….who said homeschool kids don’t know how to socialize…let the pictures tell you otherwise.

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May20

27 hours before we depart East Africa To Asia

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Asia here we come….I hope you are ready for the Manns’ Clan!!!

All bags packed and kids are all excited about the journey ahead of us tomorrow. As we depart from the continent of Africa to the continent of Asia…specifically Bangkok Thailand.

It’s been an amazing journey here in Nairobi as we learn to understand the different cultures of the Western part of Africa, southern part of Africa and the Eastern part of Africa.

One thing we all have in common is the gift of free smiles everywhere….

Thank you for making our stay in Nairobi extra special with all our LLF’s ( LIFE LONG FRIENDS) we have made since we arrived here. That is what our Journey is all about and we are well on our way to accomplishing that dream of creating great memories with Life Long Friends.

All 10 bags ready to go …

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May20

Some Great Dishes while On The Road

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Great dishes all around while travelling from South Africa to East Africa….

May19

Our Tennis Family

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While travelling around the world as a family we needed to find an activity that we can play as a family and enjoy.

So we started playing tennis and we are really enjoying it as a family.

We play for fun and we also play to compete with each other. everyone likes a little bit of competition in their system.

Here are some few pictures of our family on the tennis court.

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At a Tennis Camp in Capetown

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May19

My First Sip of Beer…Yuck!!!!

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Well I am 36yrs old and you will think that I should have had a beer at least in my youth.

But Nope…!!!

I had my first Beer at a goodbye party while here in Nairobi and I think I have made my descion…NO BEER for me.

It’s so bitter and I am still yet to find out why people consume so much at a time.

Well as I am travelling maybe I might find a Beer that will stick with me, but for now NO Beer for Mavis Manns..LOL!!!

This is the first beer I had and the picture of the rest in the cup tells it all if I loved it or not…

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The rest of the beer is still in the can..LOL!!!

May18

Travel and Homeschool all in ONE

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One the fun ways of our travelling is being able to not only teach our kids different cultures and way of life but also homeschooling them while travelling around the world.

We are still using our curriculum Abeka Academy and all is going very well.

Here is a picture of our family at the dinning table finishing up their school work before we start other activities for the day.

Our kids are up by 6am. They do their calisternics which includes pushups, squats, situps and dips.

After that they have their breakfast at 7am

And then start homeschooling at 7:30am and by 10:30am homeschool is done and time for Chess lesson and all other fun and outdoor activities.

So by 10:30am we are ready to explore each country to the fullest.

Picture of the kids finishing up school work\

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