Nairobi - Sun 26th July 09

We (Matt, Rick and I) went to do the Nairobi tourist trail today which included an elephant orphanage - lots of cute baby elephants and a baby rhino.

Then the giraffe sanctuary where we fed the giraffes - on to Karen (I had a farm in Africa, Meryl Streep Oscar etc.) Blixen's house and gardens - had lunch there which was lovely.

In the evening we had the first meeting of our truck party - 20 of us in all. There's half English, quarter Aussie, quarter Kiwi - I'd say 60% women - mostly mid twenties, early thirties and three oldies thrown in. Having said that one of the 'oldies' has just climbed Kilimanjaro so full respect to him! All seem like a nice bunch - hope so - 6 1/2 weeks is a LONG time!

6 of us took off after the meeting and went to Kenya's most famous restaurant - Carnivore - it's not just a tourist place, it's where the locals come for their birthdays and celebrations - it's basically an eat all you like meat fest - they just keep coming at you with huge skewers of meat - we had chicken, pork, turkey, beef, lamb and ostrich - yum. oh - and sausage. Reckon the truck might get a bit wiffy tomorrow!

Need to get up at 6 tomorrow for an 8 hour drive to Tanzania - eek!