Settled In!

So we are now in Nairobi all settled into our new appartment. The girls are both sound asleep, but even though I basically haven't slept since I left, I am too wired to sleep. We were stuck in the middle column of seats 4 rows from the back of the plane on the way here, but Kenya Airways had waaay more leg room than KLM, so it wasn't too bad. We got two full meals on each flight, and they were not only edible, but acutally pretty good!

We arrived in Nairobi at 625AM, and didn't make it out of the airport until almost 9AM. After a bit of a panic trying to find our taxi driver (who had assumed we weren't coming after all) we finally got headed for our hotel. We are staying in a residential hotel, so it is really more like an appartment. We have two bedrooms, a huge living/dining room, and two bathrooms as well as a full kitchen. Since I will be going to work earlier than the other girls, I got a room to myself (SCORE!) but they each have a double bed and I'm stuck with a single. The living room looks out over the pool, which is awesome! And we have wireless internet access from our living room, which is just about the best news I've ever gotten.

However, I am in quite a panic because two of us bought power adapter things, and we finally got them all figured out and plugged our blowdrier into the wall, and it blew, and wont work, so we are incredibly nervous about trying to plug in our hairstraigteners/camera chargers/laptops. So I have about an hour of laptop battery life left, and then who knows what we will figure out. We are hoping to go into town tonight to try and buy a power adaptor here, as well as get ourselves some Kenyan cell phones and do a little grocery shopping. There is a 24 hour restaurant downstairs where we had lunch, it was really good, mostly american food, but we hope to do a lot of cooking ourselves to save money.

We haven't seen too much of Nairobi yet, just what we could see on the drive from the airport, but I really like it. It's very green, alot more trees and plants than I was expecting. The cars drive on the other side of the road like in the UK, which will take some getting used to, I kept thinking the driver was going to crash, it was very confusing! The roads here are all paved, but the sidewalks are like little red dirt roads, and there were tons of pedestrians. I'll know more after we head into town for shopping! I should go and save my battery life, who knows when I'll be able to charge it!

-Delaney xo