No sleeeep

Tuesday 30 July 2013

It's almost 1:30am and I have been wide awake for over an hour.. I guess my body is still adjusting to Kenyan time. 

Since I skipped a day of travel on the blog, I'll go back and start from the flight to Dubai(: the first 6 or 7 hours were great, they gave us hot lemony (idk if that's a word) smelling towels to wipe our faces, then served us lunch. The Indian couple beside me convinced me to try the Hindi vegetarian dish, which was rice, cabbage and cheese. I don't know how to describe the cheese with out it sounding really disgusting, buuut.. Just imagine hot cottage cheese, but instead of little clumps, it was cubes. Kind of like soupy tofu..? Anywayysss. It didn't taste too bad when I mixed the soupy part with the rice, but the cubes were a pretty weird consistency. I watched a bunch of movies and tried to sleep whenever I could get comfortable, but after about hour 8-9, my legs were constantly getting hit by the flight attendant cart because I had to stretch them in to the aisle to keep from cramping up. They turned down the lights for a little while and the ceiling of the plane was so cool! There were little LED  lights that looked like stars(: 

When we finally landed in Dubai, the malaria meds were  kicking my butt so I don't remember much except sleeping in a bunch of different strange positions on a bench. We had about 2 hours until our flight to Kenya. Before we got on the next plane, I went to one of the "duty free" stores and got a huge bottle of water, some "melon milk" (it sounded cool) and two snacks for only $1.74! Much better than the $4.25 I paid for only a bottle of water at RDU -__-

The flight from Dubai to Kenya wasn't bad at all, probably because I was so excited. I watched Cinderella, then slept most of the way because I had a window seat. Any time the captain came on the radio and said anything about landing in Kenya or the current weather in Kenya, I was just like "omgomgomgomg this is really real!!!" (In my head) and I got butterflies, the kind like when you're about to go on a first date and you're just waiting and hoping it'll be everything you built it up to be in your head (kind of corny, I know, but I'm half asleep and its the best analogy I could think of..) When we were descending, the sun was setting as we came through the clouds and it couldn't have been more perfect. I was in love with the country before we even touched down. The land looked different from any land I have ever flown over in the U.S., it was untouched, barren dirt with an occasional shrub or cluster of huts. And, somehow that made it even more beautiful-the fact that it was still exactly the way it had been created. Even as we got closer to the city, the areas that had small farms didn't look like farms in the U.S. Instead of everything being sectioned off in to grids and rows, you could tell they were working with the land, instead of trying to make it look a certain way or be something it isn't (I feel like I'm having a rambling hippie moment..)

When we landed, it took for.ev.er to get our luggage, but luckily no one lost any bags, except one carry on that was checked at the last minute. I went to the ATM and took out some money, but I didn't know how much I was getting out, I just made an educated guess and went with it, so hopefully it was the right amount! When we walked out of the airport there was a grassy area with life sized metal rhino sculptures, and to the right, across the street, there was a big wooden fence covered in bright graffiti. Hopefully when we go back it will be light outside so I can get some pictures(: 

Well, my eyes are finally getting tired, and I'm really hungry because my body still thinks that it is 7pm instead of 2am. Hopefully I will be able to get some sleep(: goodnight!