Since I haven't written for a few days, I guess I'll start from where I stopped.
Monday: We drove from Kijabe to Nakuru, and went to the game park. It was a really nice day, and there were a lot of animals out. I quite enjoyed it. Well, I enjoyed it until we went into town, the former small, sleepy town of Nakuru, which has recently turned into the bustling, crowded, chaotic city of Nakuru. Mom was just about to lose it as we looked for a parking spot on the slightly sketchy street our hotel was on. However, some guy got us a parking spot(he was obviously expecting a little bit of money...) and we got into the hotel, all of us and our luggage intact. The hotel was quite basic, and the toilet leaked slightly when it was flushed. There were balconies that at first glace we thought were covered with dust, but under further inspection was diesel grime. Gotta love Kenyan cities, right?
Tuesday: We woke up, packed, and went for our free breakfast at the Chinese restaurant that was in the hotel. I can say that it was kind of odd eating breakfast in a Chinese restaurant. It was a few hours drive to Thompson Falls, and we had lunch there. The little lodge was directly beside the falls, and it was a kind of place that seemed that it was once a nice, relevant place, but now just seems kind of cheesy. Lunch was greasy chicken with rice that was extremely bland, even after the sauce, which was pretty much all oil, was added to the food. We had to pay to actually go look at the falls. It kind of wasn't worth it because as soon as we got over the fence we were constantly pestered by a bunch of vendors and people dressed in 'traditional' costumes that, like the lodge, were once relevant but now are cheesy. After that we drove the two hours to Nanyuki. I don't know how the road crews manage it, but 75% of that stretch of road seems to be under construction. When we got Nanyuki we headed to Nakkumatt, the best department store around, to get food for the week. Then we came back to the cottage, which I believe belongs to Elsen, and it's right by the Trout Tree Restaurant, which he owns/co-owns. We didn't do much in the evening other than eat hot dogs and sit by the fire.
Wednesday: We didn't do much on Wednesday. We ate lunch at the Trout Tree(good restaurant... I highly suggest it to anybody whose heading Nanuyuki/ Mount Kenya way). I did a bunch of codewords in the afternoon.
Thurday: We went to another game park/reserve place, Ol Pejita. It wasn't as nice as Nakuru, weather wise and there was very little game out. We stopped at the lodge for lunch and so that Dad could fix their webcam. Lunch was a very formal occasion, which made me feel slightly uncomfortable, especially when Evan was sitting by me with his atrocious table manners. We had to stop him from (a) picking at his teeth quite excessively, (b) spearing his entire piece of fish with his fork and taking bites off it, (c) licking his plate, (d) whistling with his soda bottle, (e) eating his entire piece of cake off his fork. Man, Evan doesn't have any enthusiasm until he's doing something disgusting/annoying in public. After lunch, while Dad fixed the webcam, Mom and I sat by the pool while Evan went for a swim. I got pretty toasty, but not quite burned, by the end of that. We then headed out to see some rhinos that they take care of and were given a tour by a ranger in camouflage and who was carrying a large gun(Dad later pointed out that the gun wasn't even loaded...) The rhino we saw was in sad condition. He only had one eye, and the one he had was infected, so he couldn't use it, either.
Friday: We didn't do much in the morning. I personally watched Doctor Who. In the afternoon, we drove to the gate to Mount Kenya National Park. It would have been cool, if we (a) didn't have to drive on about 10km of terrible dirt road with kids all over the place hollering,"SWEETS!" at us and if (b) we could actually see the mountain. The mountain was almost completely clouded over, when we first got there, we were thinking it was behind the trees, but it was right in front of us.
Today we ate lunch at the Trout Tree again and I wrote some emails to people. And that brings me to now. I don't feel up to much, Dad isn't up to much, Evan is never up to much, and I think Mom is tired. Exciting day, right?
Oh, and note worthy youtube note! Apparently, a few days ago back at home, there was a woman in the paper, a museum curator, who was wearing a fake mustache in her picture. Katie sent her an email and a link to our mustache video, and she liked it. She wrote back about how she used to keep the fake mustache on her curator sign, and how for her birthday she got all the staff to wear fake mustaches at her party. I thought that was funny. I now I have a goal to find this woman and befriend her.
My battery looks like it's going to run out soon. I write back soon about the crazy wildlife around the cottage. And, for the first time in an eternity, the title is kind of relevant to something in the post.
-J-
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