well i may have made a huge mistake........................just ate a chicken biriyani from local style rest 20 min's ago and i have a 10 hr bus ride in 5 hours w/no bathroom and only 2 stops along the way
in rest against the wall was a big glass enclosure with about 40 or so 1/4 chicken pieces. rather than constantly open n close glass window, the workers just left it open so whatever meat was not chewed or shit on by the flies is what they grabbed and stuck on a plate then put some red sauce kinda like spaghetti sauce and a big bowl of rice is what i just ate. no doubt the chicken was all cooked at once this morning and prob sat for 3-4 hours in enclosure while flies 'went to town on it' oh well it tasted good, strangely enough laura didn't wanna try it......but it tasted good and while i was 1/2 through i thought of grave mistake i made ordering such a thing before our bus journey....................maybe i'll have to look for an extra large diaper in case i hate long bus rides specially with such crazy drivers here and many acidetns, i heard over 3000 people/year die in car accidents here that is a lot! and if we are gonna die i'd better have clean shorts on at least......haha
haven't done much ;last few days walked around this lil town, laura bought some stuff at the market, and we r drinking about 4-7 glasses of pure fruit juice/day it is soo good and cheap as borsht!
took matatu or van that they cram as many loacals into as they can to a beautiful beach town 45 minutes away. laura commented how i stunk like body odour(again i just put on fresh clothes but cuz of the heat a few hours lator i did stink) anyways aa while lator she admitted that she act5ualy smelt like an ole armput herself..................then we got into the mattatu. can u imagine about 12 - 15 people in the hot van all crammed in with no air movement? all you could smell was b.o. awful all sorts and flavours it was like a big ole stinking sweaty armpit going down the road............honestly it stunk but what can you do when it is so hot. the people beside us all appeared clean, yet they smelled as much as my baby did(laura, althought she is the cutest smelling armpit i've ever seen!)
beach town had beautiful waters and we sat in front of supermarket drinking ice cold soda's to try and cool off before going back in the armpit wagon for the ride back. laura did some good bargaining yest in market and got some decent prices............we prob still got riped off, but at least waaaaaaaaaay less than their starting prices for things.
this is really poor country so stuff should be cheaper but obviously a tourist pays more and we accept that as part of traveling, as long as we can walk away smiling n happy and vendor is no doubt very happy n smiling then all is good! the amount of wooder masks/animalsn carvings n necklaces here is crazy. more than you could ever imagine as there aren't that many tourists here, i can see why it is kinda dangerous country a bit. specially Nairobi i don't feel safe there period and by dusk basically all the tourists staying at guesthouse we stayed at, am will be at in 18 hrs, lock themselves in before dark to the compound and no-one leaves till next morning. sad that we feel like prisoners not being able to leave but better safe than sorry, i guess we could go out in a group or our just take taxi everywhere but we'd just as soon stay safe n sound and relax there
my computer is totally blowing hot air out the side never felt that hot before from a computer and fan is above us on high, yet it is still warm. laura has a power bar beside here that 1 plug in part is totally brown and melted, something musta gotten hot, scary they stil use it. everything is different in these countries everything!
oh reminds me 2 das ago we went to rest and girl gave us menu's to look at. after 3-4 mins of browsing we placed our order, then the girl said'we only have chicken and chips', now why wouldn't she say that at the beginning? crazy here
we went to different rest and everytime laura asked for something the waiter said'it isn't ready yet' or 'it is still being prepared' or 'sorry owner has to go to market and buy more' and at the end of her asking for about 4-5 different things he said' but we have chicken n chips!' the entire country lives on chicken n chips i think!
we walked out finally finding a place that actually had inventory. back home you'd never think finding a rest that actually has more than chicken n chips is such a hard task but here it is. everything is so weird and the simplest things seems soo difficult!
at that same rest i asked for fish and was told i could have spagheti w/fish, so then i asked for just plain fish w/o spagheti and was told it wasn't possible but i could have spaghetti with fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! frustrated i ordered spaghetti n fish!
at supper last night i asked for fish with garlic butter. i was told i could onlyhave it fried in oil, yet they had buter for the toast and she said they had garlic and i could get shrimp in a garlic sauce but fish in garlic butter wasn't possible sorry, so after shaking my head and laura n i both laughing to each other i ordered crumbed n fried fish(breaded) which wasn't that good and we fed lots of to some homeless street cats under our table.......oh as we sat in the non smoking section of the rest and the waiter brought an ashtray to 2 italian tourists qwith their hookers sitting at table next to us! what a strange hot country.....really nice locals though!
well we gota go walk round beofre we r trapped for 10 hours on bus......guess i'll be all sad n alone the next time i email will be from ethiopia i think!hope i don't crap myself on the bus!
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Oohhh Chris...I hope you made the bus ride without to much gut rumbling!
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