Mombasa!

Hi all,
Reena here.  We're now in Mombasa, staying at the Bamburi Beach Hotel, a beautiful resort with a beach view of the ocean- can you say HEAVEN!  Mexico has nothing on this - trust me!  Mombasa is HOT HOT HOT and beautiful.  Very tropical, the people are so friendly (so far!) and it feels MUCH safer than Nairobi as it's not gated up with guards everywhere.  We arrived this morning via Kenya Air (great plane ride by the way).  Only a 45 minute flight but somehow they still managed to serve us breakfast and tea and coffee before landing - seriously, Air Canada needs to take notes! 

Yesterday in Nairobi, we visited Mum's old high school which was very cool, seeing where her old classrooms and labs were.  Then we went to this fruit and veggie marketplace where i FINALLY SAW monkeys, stealing corn and fruit and eating them up in the trees.  I ALMOST got one in our car (as you'll see in the pic).  I wanted to take him with me of course haha.

Also had the best mandazi this morning at a random restaurant on the way to the hotel in Mombasa, I wish I could take some home for you all.  We also visited the most peaceful mandir-type place where there was this cave you had to go into - where we saw SO MANY MONKEYS and i fed them fruit.

We'll now be at the Resort till Sunday, visiting family and shopping at the markets, and mostly just relaxing before our next trip.

Have a great Thankgsiving Weekend and enjoy TURKEY DINNER without me!  Also, someone get on Nishil's case about our Halloween costume - it's his responsibility this time since I'm not there!

Zeenat here:
What a nostalgic experience yesterday was. Visited my High School in Nairobi where I did my 'A' Levels and where I was the head girl.  It transported me back (teary eyed) to those days (many many years ago) when I used to pace  those  halls in that uniform.  It was wonderful to have Reena with me as, for most of her life I've escorted her to her various schools - this time she did that for me.  While the school has now expanded and has more programs - a new olympic size swimming pool, a computer lab named 'Bill Gates', music lessons (we could hear the piano), an outdoor cafeteria - not a lot has changed in the looks and atmosphere. 

Other experiencces - we visited a mall whch had a food court (not a concecpt in my past), however, each food stall had servers that paced the food court with menus and took orders from people sitting  at the tables and brought their orders to them. Now, that is what I call service. Talking about service - we went into a fruit market to buy some of the fruit that I grew up eating (mostly straight off of trees) and again, there were helpers who paced the isles alongside us with plastic bags to help us bag them and then carry the bags to the cashier.  Well, I still can't get used to having a full time maid do just about 'everything' in the house (maybe I could get used to that ..... NOT)