Oof.

May 29th, Day 4, Nairobi. From Brian:

Ok, jet lag has officially caught up to us. We had grand plans of getting up this morning and going down to the city center to find the bus station and get our tickets to Kampala, and to check out the city. Well, we slept until about 2. Hopefully now we're back to a somewhat normal amount of sleep. We got ourselves up and showered, headed down to the internet cafe by Eric's place to catch up on email, and then decided to grab some lunch. We were pretty hungry and recovering from our Ethiopian feast the night before, so we decided to try the sports pub above the cafe we were in. The place was nice, but felt just like any Applebee's style bar back home. But we did get to meet a gentleman who introduced himself as Julius Caesar (IX? I think?) and proceeded to dance all around the bar, by himself. At 4:00 in the afternoon. So we had some avocado cheeseburgers and Tusker beers, and then decided to go to the city center.

Unfortunately, better judgement took hold of us then and we realized that it would take a couple hours to get to the bus station and get tickets, which would put us back home at around 8 or 9 (it gets dark around 7 here, because we're so close to the equator), and we decided that wasn't a great idea.

So we decided to go get some groceries. We went to the Nakumatt to pick up some rice, chicken, beer, corn, avocados and pineapple to make dinner. We haven't really had a "Kenyan" meal yet, so we don't really know what to make. So we'll just make some tasty food. We also had a great checkout experience. Apparently when you buy produce, you're supposed to take a sticker and place it on your corn, avocado, etc. Being Americans, we were not aware of this, and felt a little embarrassed when each item had to be sent back to be properly stickered before we could pay. I guess the only good news is that their computer system was so difficult to use that the checkout guy hadn't finished entering all the other items we bought before the runner came back with our properly stickered produce. Still, the checkout guy and the guy behind us got to exchange a look that said, "crazy white people."

Today felt like a bit of a failure, but at least we're caught up on sleep and ready to go now!