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OldRightHander
It’s been an eventful couple days. Yesterday, we had breakfast, swam for a bit in the ocean, then paid $20 to take a ride in a glass bottom boat. That was well worth it, since the boat dropped anchor over a coral reef and we were able to get out of the boat for a bit of snorkeling. The water was so darn clear you could see the bottom some fifteen feet down like you were in a swimming pool. There were zebra fish by the dozens, starfish, sea cucumbers, urchins, and some other fish I couldn’t rightly identify. Carren isn’t much of a swimmer, so she stayed in the boat and took photos of me in the water.
The photos will have to wait, since the internet where we are in Nairobi at the moment isn’t fast enough to allow me to load them. I have some nice photos of the hotel we stayed at in Mombasa, a real nice piece of architecture, but with substandard air conditioning in the rooms. It gets quite hot in Mombasa and sleeping was a sweaty affair most nights. Dinner last night was at a fairly authentic English pub where you had to guard your food from overly ambitious monkeys that were always watching for an opportune moment to steal food from your table.
The five hour train ride back to Nairobi this morning was quite nice because the animals along the route were cooperative and were close enough to the track to see them, but not quite close enough to get photos out of a moving train window. Through the course of the ride, I spotted a few elephants, some gazelles, zebras, wildebeest, and quite a few baboons. We arrived back in Nairobi this morning where were stayed with a friend and then went to a pub to watch the Liverpool/Manchester United game. He’s a ManU fan and I’m a Liverpool fan, and the pub was mostly full of ManU fans. I ate an extremely delicious plate of grilled goat with French fries and a Coke. All ended well for me, seeing as my team won and I have some bragging rights for a bit.
If I have better internet in Kisumu, I might post some photos tomorrow. I have quite a few. Nairobi is quite an interesting city, an odd mix of modern and third world. Open air markets everywhere and more pedestrians than you see in most cities, and don’t even get me started on the various methods of public transit. There aren’t as many tuk tuks as Mombasa, but they’re still around, as well as the boda bodas. Stay tuned, hopefully, for some interesting photos.