Beautiful evening sky...

Is this an African paradise?

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Such a nice day in Accra

Enjoying the sea breeze while catching up on my blogging.

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Serengeti and Ruaha National Parks

I spent a few days at each park and saw a lot of great stuff; nature is wild!

Coriolis effect and the equator

I made my way across the equator yesterday when I went from Nairobi to Mount Kenya. While I did see some cool tricks performed with a tub of water, I was a little skeptical... Later I learned that while the coriolis effect is real, it is insignificant for bathtubs and toilets. The trip to Mount Kenya was short; I only had time for a safari park and then back in the car to go to Nairobi. On the way back, we stopped to go through a market and saw the usual foods: bananas, carrots, watermelon, etc.

Heading back to Nairobi, the car got a flat tire. The driver put the spare on, which about 5 minutes later also became flat. As it was getting dark (and being on the side of the highway with an expensive car at night is not safe), we drove on the flat spare tire until we found a shop that could repair the real tire. Eventually we got back on the road, but heading into the city, we got lost on the highway because the highway was under construction and there were several diversions to different side roads. Somehow our driver must have missed an exit because we ended up ON THE CONSTRUCTION SITE, dodging traffic (apparently, we weren't the only ones who got lost!), cinder blocks, potholes, and construction equipment.* Woo, what a night!

At the equator

Chimpanzees at the safari park

Yum!

Weird vegetable

*Still, while Nairobi has quite some crazy driving, it does not compare AT ALL with India. In India, we would be on the construction site, dodging twice as many cars, ONCOMING traffic, cinder blocks, potholes, construction equipment, bulls, pedestrians, motorcycles...

G|Kenya 2.0 in Nairobi

After being pumped up from Kampala, I went to Nairobi to do the same thing. For whatever reason, I found that G|Kenya 2.0 was less stressful (I think more people were involved), so I had more energy at night to go out each night to do something different. One night was dancing, another hookah bar, and another Carnivore, a sad attempt at churrascaria (and quite a tourist trap!)

So, funny story: I ate some ox balls at Carnivore... I think I was inebriated when I ordered them because I definitely did not think through the consequences of eating testicles. At first, they tasted okay (they were kind of soft, which is fine), but then the realization, the horror, that I had put ox testicles in my mouth hit me. My throat refused to swallow them, as if it was saying, "Screw you mouth! I'm not following through with your stupid decision!" Without being able to swallow quickly, I continued to taste the ox balls, and a feeling of nausea started to creep up. But, before I had to run to the bathroom to spit them out (or worse, throw up at the table), I swished my neighbor's alcohol and forced them down. In conclusion, I would not wish such a punishment on my greatest enemies.

G|Kenya 2.0 entrance 

Delicious cupcakes! 

Fellow coworkers 

See, ox balls... why, oh why...