Dubai to Nairobi

After a long, fun night it was time to take care of Nita's favorite pastime…shopping! We took a taxi to the Gold Souk and where you could find any sort of goods, most of them probably from China! There you could find gold, toys, spices and clothing. Seth was pumped when he found his Sheik hat. I'm sure it will be appearing again later in the week. We also took a little detour to see the old town and walk along the water. As we were heading out we noticed, our favorite shopper hadn't purchased anything! How could it be?

We took a taxi to the hotel then took the metro back to the airport…helping Ali to learn to blend with the locals! At the airport, we snacked on Irish food and the boys stocked up on "the guys" to take on our trip…Jack, Jim and Johnnie. I slept like a baby on the flight to Africa! We arrived in immigration and pretty much ran to the line. Nita and I blazed through quickly with our visas in hand and headed to baggage claim. It took a while for the luggage to arrive, but we eventually collected all the bags. It had been about 2 hours and no friends in sight. 2.5 hours passed and we finally spotted Ali. Then about 30 minutes later Tan, Mary and Jackson showed up. And we all spent the last 45 minutes running around in baggage claim taking pics and getting excited to leave the airport! Jackson and I stayed entertained watching a little boy that looked like he was there traveling alone. He spun in circles, rode the baggage claim conveyer belt and bopped himself in the head. We gave him a British accent and laughed as we came up with what he was saying to himself. Finally, about 30 minutes later we all cheered as Seth made it through!

Our plan was to go to Carnivore that night, but it was pretty late so we just relaxed at the hotel. We had a nice waitress and the guys discovered the Kenyan beer, Tusker. The food was pretty delicious too. The Stanley hotel was built in the early 1900s and has been renovated. It's beautiful!! There is also a tree that used to hold notes so the guests could communicate with each other. Midnight passed and it was officially Tan's birthday! He left a note for us all on the tree and we signed the back of the note to wish him a happy, wonderful birthday in Africa!!!