The Real 1st Day!

Bed about 1230. Slept by 0230? Several dogs seemed to be having a party and felt that they should alert the neighborhood to their late-night festivities by barking loudly. Woke about 0830. Not too bad for jetlag day 1. Leo (today) will be relaxing, just unpack and get settled. More to come…

It seems the power had no interest in waking this morning when we did, which made for a very cold shower! The sun followed suit. I’ve been cold all day. It’s hard to adjust when you live in a warm climate. Haha. (Seattle: 90F and sunny. Nairobi: practically snowing).

1st experience with wildlife: lizard in the curtains. About 2” long and tan (I mean in color, not like he’d been vacationing in Hawai’i or something). It took a few years off my life (and wasted some valuable adrenaline, which really should have been used for important things like fleeing from bears and running like a cheetah) when it fell out of the curtains and scurried across the floor. Though how much worse could it have been if it was a spider?...or...a moth…or cockroach. Ay caramba, now I have chills.

I just had Chapatti for dinner. They were good ones too. I’m officially in Kenya now. Sweet! I also learned that the power is officially off daily from 630am to 6pm. So its absence this morning was scheduled vaca (as in ‘vacation’, not ‘cow’) time I guess. Anyway, the reason is because of the water crisis here (they use mostly water power – why they use water power rather than solar power in a place known for long periods of annual drought and abundant with sun, I do not know. Maybe someone should suggest it…?)