Unglaublich!

We went to the St Patricks Day annual Irish ball last Saturday night. It was really good - there were like 150 mazungus in a big hall, (both) well decorated and the organisers put in a really big effort. It was at the Hilton hotel which is surprisingly like a real Hilton. The same purple dress that we for bought in Italy for Nina’s wedding still fitted me – what a bonus! We sat at a table with 8 other saffas and had a lot of fun – not an Irishman in sight! There was a bottle of Jameson on every table (besides 2 baileys bottles and loads of wine) and once the boys had finished our bottle they spent the rest of the night concocting plans on how to steal the whiskey off other table. They were very successful actually – managing to pilfer 2 other bottles.
Needless to say Benedikt went to bed more than a little pissed and we both had to get up 3.5 hours later to go and do a race! I obviously wasn’t hungover but felt like it – that was far too little sleep for me - I need my sleep boy. Especially now I am 'the pregnant women'. I am DREADING Cecil’s arrival for that reason. Being sleep deprived just SUCKS so much doesn’t it?

Anyway the race went REALLY well for Benedikt. Something I have observed many times - the less prepared you for a race the better you do! Benedikt feels his form is really returning. So watch out Dieter! He beat a well known fast guy who has beaten him a couple of times. And he also finished very close behind Peter Viljoen – who not only is a saffa, but is also the fasted Mazungu in Kenya!

I did the 25km at a REALLY leisurely pace. I rode with a 9 year old who was doing his first ‘long distance’! It was really quite cool riding with him and encouraging him and seeing how well he did... Sasha is swiss and is the son of good friends of ours here.

VERY exciting news now – I’ve joined a library! Its the Muthaiga club one and is really quite decent. Quite similar to Linden Library actually, which I used to frequent. I was really happy to find they had 6 of my favourite author books, Ian McEwan. So I am not going to run out of reading material while being here thats for sure. YAY YAY YAY

Then how FUNNY is this. Benedikt and I heard about a ballet that being held last Thursday. It was Romeo and Juliet and was reasonably priced so we decided to go. We invited Roland and Naoko as well because Naoko is ballet befok. Anyway, we all got tarted up and hyped up for our evening at the ballet.... only to discover on arrival that it was just a DVD of the royal ballet from 1984 that was being played on a big screen!!!!! We couldn’t believe it! Unglaublich! Only in bloody Kenya!!!!!
Anyway, we sat through it and enjoyed our meal afterwards. And giggled alot about the evening. But really - they could have said it was just a DVD showing on the flyer!

I’ve been having the odd nightmare about cecil. Like how I forgot to feed him for a week. Then the next dream I’d never once bathed him and he was a couple of months old. And when I did get round to bathing him – we had no baby products. And he kept slipping down in the bath water while I had to reach for things. Eventually I propped him up with my foot in the corner of the bath while I jumped around on my other leg reaching for a towel etc. And the shower gel I used on him made his skin very red and burny! Shame, this poor boy doesn’t know what he is in for!