Kenyan Wedding and our birthdays

So last friday Benedikt and I went to a cycling friend of ours' wedding. Alex is Ugandan and Ruth is Kenyan. We got there at 11:20 as it started at 11am and we knew it would run late.... well, it only got started at 12:30! We were sitting/standing in the blazing sun until 2:30pm which is when the ceremony bit finished! Not good for this grumpy pregnant fairy :-)
The vows were all pretty standard and pleasant. But they had 3 priests!! All going off on their own tangent and speaking nonsense. The churches here do tend to be a bit evangelical. Apparently the louder the speaker is into the microphone, the more religious he is :-)

Then lunch was served which consisted of some interesting dishes. And chapati of course. Then we waited a further 2 and a half hours for the bride and groom to finish their photos and stuff... but they had a very impressive arrival. They headed up a 30 minute dancing train! People were really getting down! And this was all without alcohol, we were quite surprised that none was served.
We sat at one of 2 Mazungu tables and the entertainer dude who had a unique violin type instrument made sure we were welcomed in all his songs - he was quite funny in his leopard get up.
All in all it was a pleasant day out... albeit a very interesting one!


It was also our birthday week last week. Mine was on Wednesday and Benedikts on Friday. We each took each for dinner and were nice to each other for a change.
But our main celebration was on Saturday night when we had a dress up party. People had to come as a German or a South African and if they chose neither then cycling get up! Funnily enough we had lotsa non cyclists who didnt mind prancing around in cycling gear.
Benedikt and I were busy all day making typical german and south african food which turned out really yummy. We had the party at the sundowner deck which is a communal lapa type thing in our compound. Really cool people came, everyone dressed up and it was a fun evening. Although everyone except our die hard neighbour faded before 12... kids and cycling mean early nights! So I guess Benedikt and I are never going to see past 12pm from August onwards ;-(