After breakfast, and the return of Bob and Karen to the truck, I walked into town with Vicki. Got caught in rain wandering the streets to the Australian Embassy where we learned that they could do nothing to help us with new pages for our passports. Did take the chance, though, to read a couple of back editions of The Age newspaper from home.
From there we went to the American Express office to start my money ball rolling and after that to the American Cookie Company. Then to a wonderful art gallery of Kenyan carvings containing a myriad of animals and an awesome life sized wrinkled old many sitting down, complete with gourds and skins; I squatted in front of him, eye to eye, just to look at him. El cheapo lunch and then to a market where I strolled around for 1.5 hours before finally buying a basket. Back to the Thorn Tree Cafe to chat, write, and looking through a beautiful photographic book called Africa - A Continent Revealed (which my sister subsequently bought for me on my return to Australia).
Vicki and my continued wandering took us past a cinema advertising that Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome was "coming soon".
Met Anne and Geoff for a delicious Italian dinner at Trattoria – really enjoying not cooking, shopping, cleaning – none of the hassles. Back at the truck we learned that Ben is flying home from Nairobi and won't finish the trip with us and Kelvin will be our lone driver to Johannesburg.
Found a hedgehog (the four-toed hedgehog is also known as the African pygmy hedgehog) in the garden. Lots of chatter about the meals eaten in Nairobi, the bags bought, and going to the drive in tomorrow night.
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