Adventures in Africa
Friday night - party time in Nairobi - we went to the famous "Florida 2000" nightclub - described fairly accurately in the Rough Guides Kenya guide book as:
Irresistible for its tackiness (with matching 1am floor shows). For the local ladies, this means grabbing drunken wazungu (foreigners). Wildly popular.
It was nice to be in a bar where the guys had more worries about being hit on than the girls. They were so paranoid about it too - learning a key Swahili phrase - "Kwenda" - which means (roughly translated) - "screw off - leave me alone!". They didn't end up having to use it as they were left alone - I think the guys were kind of insulted about that!!! It was kind of a fun place actually. We went with a friend of Tim's - Beatrice - a local who is really fun and seems to know what's really going on in town and what is fun to do. I think I will be calling on Beatrice a lot over the coming months for someone to go out with as well as to use her local knowledge to gage what is worth checking out and what isn't.
Saturday we had planned to go to Nairobi National Park but were waylaid by a matatu driver who waited until we paid our fare and were already far from where we were supposed to be to tell us we were on the wrong matatu. Really, it was our fault for not knowing the right number to get onto but it was still extremely annoying. We ended up taking a little stroll (1.5 hours) towards the park on foot, but in the end, the people who were supposed to be our rides through the park were even later than we were, so we ditched that plan in frustration and head to a bbq that Beatrice had invited us to on the research compound that she works at.
It was a gorgeous huge campus/compound with a nice pool, tennis courts, etc. It was someone's birthday - we kind of felt like we were crashing this party but everyone was quite nice and friendly - with a lot of expats and people here for a few months on research. Delicious food, cheese, desserts and wine and some beach volleyball and wall climbing (this compound has EVERYTHING!) and then home to collapse. I'm glad that the day that started out so poorly turned into something fun.
Saturday we had planned to go to Nairobi National Park but were waylaid by a matatu driver who waited until we paid our fare and were already far from where we were supposed to be to tell us we were on the wrong matatu. Really, it was our fault for not knowing the right number to get onto but it was still extremely annoying. We ended up taking a little stroll (1.5 hours) towards the park on foot, but in the end, the people who were supposed to be our rides through the park were even later than we were, so we ditched that plan in frustration and head to a bbq that Beatrice had invited us to on the research compound that she works at.
It was a gorgeous huge campus/compound with a nice pool, tennis courts, etc. It was someone's birthday - we kind of felt like we were crashing this party but everyone was quite nice and friendly - with a lot of expats and people here for a few months on research. Delicious food, cheese, desserts and wine and some beach volleyball and wall climbing (this compound has EVERYTHING!) and then home to collapse. I'm glad that the day that started out so poorly turned into something fun.
What exactly was the floor show Kat? You've left us in suspense!
~Karen