Well, we have arrived in Kenya after 2 flights and a layover in Heathrow airport. I now fully understand the disorienting effects of jetlag from international travel. Thank goodness for naps!
We are certainly getting an insiders view of Kenya...our hosts, Njoroge and Kevina have a car and a house in a suburb of Nairobi called Karen. It is a relatively affluent area, with properties spread out rather than high-rise buildings squished together like in the heart of Nairobi. Traffic is crazy, you must be very aggressive or else you don't go anywhere. We seem to be attracting a lot of interested looks, people staring at the 'muzungos', the white people. There are people everywhere, and they are almost all black.
Today we drove to Thika, a small town close to Nairobi - about 100 km away - in order to have a final fitting of Kevina's wedding dress. Both Kevina and the dressmaker were very nervous - the last fitting did not go well. But today went well, the dress is beautiful and the bride is happy.
Our car broke down on the highway after hitting a particularly nasty pothole - it broke a fuse! We lost power on the highway and were stranded. Good thing we had a Kenyan with us! Njoro walked back to find a mechanic, who was actually quite close by, and we were back on the road in about 15 minutes. However it was a very stressful 15 minutes!
I really must return to the party...I am at Njoro's stag party, Barb is with Kevina and about 20 other women at the 'Hen party', or stagette. The youth of Africa have latched onto the western traditions of partying hard before a wedding. Well, they like to party hard most of the time, but particularly for a wedding! We'll see what the night has in store...
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