our weekend in nairobi

Aside from some amazing food - a REAL salad, and some surprisingly tasty ostrich meatballs.. we also got to experience some wildlife last weekend. Though, they were pretty used to human presence, so I'm not sure how wild  it really was. We might have to wait until safari for that.

Firstly, we went to the Nairobi City Park. It was pretty nice, with flowering purple trees, a pond, and a garden with benches. The main reason we went there though.... MONKEYS!!!!

They were tiny, but very grabby! Kyle was opening a bag of peanuts that we bought to feed to them and they stole them right out of his hand! Once we got used to them it was a lot of fun, having them climb on us and feed them from out hands. We fed them so many peanuts. The guy selling the nuts was trying to convince us to buy a Coke to feed to them, but we decided that might be unhealthy for monkeys.

After that we ate downtown at a fish a chips place, that didn't serve any fish - and they also thought it was ridiculous that we would order fish....

Next we headed to the Giraffe sanctuary to feed and look at some Rothschild Giraffes - an endangered species! There are only about 300 of them left I think - but that is up from 120 or so thanks to the rehabilitation efforts of the sanctuary.

It was really cool - we got to see the giraffes in their habitat. Kyle and I even kissed some!! It was pretty cool. Kyle loved it.

On Sunday, we got to visit with Matt and he told us some awesome stories about his climb of Kilimanjaro.It sounded awesome! Some Thompson people should know Matt, but for those of you who don't, He was an exchange student in.. 2003? I think, and it just worked out that he was in Nairobi when we were!  He also got us breakfast, Thanks Matt! It was delicious.

Then, we hopped on a matatu and headed back to Nakuru. It was good to see the kids again.

I'm holding Paris - she is a total sweetheart!