Pictures soon to come!

Amy is here and I am so happy!!!!! I was able to receive a lot of gifts from my friends and family and it's an early Christmas!! :) I am currently living on 3.5 hours of sleep, but tonight will be a good night of sleep! :)

Today we stopped in Rongai and I bought my first thing from the market. I bought 2 feet of garlic for 10 shillings each!! Then we went to another place next to Tusky's and I was able to buy some potatoes!! I got a pretty good deal--5 kilos for 200 shillings AND then he gave me like 5-6 extra and said "Merry Christmas!" So....I was pretty excited!!! We're planning on making some homefries and some french fried!!!!!!!! :) YAY!!

I get pretty excited about food as you can tell. So, I REALLY enjoyed dinner!! We had haystacks tonight and it was AMAZING!!! My sisters got me some fritos!!!! (not available in Kenya) and Yani made some ballin chilli....we made a hefty bowl of salsa!!!! and then Derek topped it all off with some nacho cheese! I seriously can't explain how good it was except for to say that my mouth was literally tingling because of how GOOD the food tasted! :)

Tomorrow we plan on going to the elephant orphanage!! I'm pretty excited to go back because the baby elephants were pretty cute! And, I think that Amy will REALLY enjoy it!! Also, we plan on going to the glass factory and I can't wait to smash some glass again. Lastly we plan on going to the Maasai market at Galleria tomorrow and I wanna get some cool things and help her bargain!

We've been at the Raymonds house tonight looking at tons of pictures. I'm really really excited about going to the Mara this weekend!!! We also plan on going to Hell's gate when we get back and then to Mombasa (the beach) for a couple days! Hopefully we can hit up a couple other places like Ngong Hills, the giraffe center, ect!

This week we've been going around town to places like Sarit Center, Westgate Mall, shopping for kikoys and souvenir shopping at Blue Shack. This place was pretty fun but everyone bombards you so it's kinda hard to shop in peace.

Other than that, not all too much has been going on. I'm really enjoying being on break and I hope it doesn't go too fast. My time here in Africa is just incredible and I am already thinking about how much I will be missing it next year :(

And you should listen to this song because it is pretty cool!!!

Christmas Break

Just another lion at the Mara!!!! This is like the most basic picture ever but I still think it's PRETTY COOL!

So happy to be out of class right now, done with grading and on Christmas Break!! Today we're going out to town!!!! Amy is currently on her flight here and I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) We have a lot of good things planned and the past couple of days have been really fun hanging out with everyone and going to town to shop and eat!!!! We've also been cooking lately since the cafe is closed and that's been fun! Also, I've been loving having this tent in our backyard and sleeping in it, watching movies or watching the stars!! I've been keeping a collection of the planets, meteors and constellations I've been seeing!!!! I'll have to post that list soon, but I'm really excited about it!!! Africa is still AMAZING! :)