Day of Fun

We had a free afternoon on Thursday so we got to see a little bit of Nairobi. (We had finished repacking and weighing our luggage in the morning. ) First we went to the Giraffe Center. It was a beautiful park where you could feed giraffes. One thing that you can do is "kiss" a giraffe. You put a pellet in your mouth and they take it out. Most of my teammates did it, but I refrained. It was less about the slimy 10 foot giraffe tongue than about putting the nasty pellet in my mouth. I was content to feed and pet them. We learned the hard way that you better feed them constantly or you will be head butted.



After the giraffe center we went to Mama Zipporah's orphanage. She currently has around 150 kids. The day before we arrived she got 5 more, including a 2 month old. It was fun to see kids that we had seen before when we went in February, especially Moses and Momo (below). Mama Zipporah is an amazing woman. She wakes up at 4:00am everyday and gets the kids ready for the day.


After the orphanage, we went back to Mayfield House where we had a traditional Kenyan dinner of chipatti and sakumi wiki (or something like that!). Then it was off to bed!