We've arrived!!

27th March 2009.
So we have arrived in a whirl wind but, we’re here and have made the most of our journey…

As we are waiting in Nairobi for Jo no.3 to arrive, before we make our final journey all together, we thought it would be only right to see what this city holds..
So this morning we hit the town and it’s been quite a day.

During our short stay in Nairobi we've:

visited an elephant orphanage: very cute. We saw rhinos, and water hogs, tortoises, as well as the little orphan elephants.

sat in 29 degrees, with an ice-cream, soaking up the sun.

kissed a giraffe ( literally!)

designed and had made our own jewellery

ate a pizza.

shopped, haggled and lost!

hit Nairobi market where we were mobbed.

And now, sitting on our beds sipping mint tea we could feel a little bit guilty from the fact that we came here to do 3 months of honest hard graft.. when so far it’s not been too strenuous! Today has been quite different to our other experiences of Kenya, so it’s good to see more, all we’d seen before was Kimilili. Here there seems more wealth, and we guess more tourism, it’s certainly more westernised yet still keeps its Kenyan charm.

On our luxurious ride of the city we saw some amazing views from the top of the hill, the mixture of green trees and big building, across the landscape. If you half closed your eyes you could possibly see miles of brown fields, but on a closer look we realised that the brown that stretched across the landscape were thousands of sheets of rusty iron, or roofs as they are better know to the slum people that live underneath them. It really was quite shocking to see people in poverty in such masses, and within this rising city. Apparently it was a million at last count that live in Africa’s biggest slum. Despite this Nairobi has left a really good impression on us and there would still be lots more to do if we had the time.

So as we sign off for today Jo Finlay would like the world to know that giraffes have very long, strong, grey tongues that are very prickly to kiss!