Kenya Day Eight

Our last full day in Nairobi was a touristy one because our flight home didn't leave until midnight. So we enjoyed some time at the Giraffe Center where we got to feed them and pet them! They are so beautiful and so graceful!

Then we went to visit the Karen Blixen estate which is now a museum. Karen was a Danish woman who lived here for years and wrote about her experiences in the book Out of Africa. The movie was actually filmed on the estate which now belongs to the government. Interestingly enough a lot of the original estate has been sold off to create a neighborhood of very upscale homes and estates - named Karen. 

She tried to grow coffee here and this was her drying machine so she could ship the beans back to Europe. 

 

Our last big outing of the day was to a mall where we had a fabulous lunch at ArtCafee. I got a Dawa tea (literally medicine tea, with tons of ginger, lemon and honey). Super powerful and good. 

 

This was us on the plane getting ready to take off for home. 

 

At our layover in the Amsterdam airport we bought the boys chocolate. Davis was super excited that we brought him home a giant Toblerone. 

 

 

Kenya Day Seven

We woke up in the safari preserve for July 10th, our 26th wedding anniversary. We went out on a 6:00am safari drive with the group. For a while everything was very peaceful and still. 

 

Then we started to see some birds. 

 

 

And eventually some of the bigger animals started heading south towards the water in herds. Staring off with a dazzle (herd) of zebras. 

And we even saw zebras mating! 

 

 

Then we saw another tower (herd) of giraffes. 

 

Then we spotted some antelope. Including a baby one that got separated from its parents and tried to hide on the ground for a bit. 

 

  

Later we came back and had breakfast at the hotel (visited by Zazu again!) before getting showers, changing clothes and heading back towards Nairobi. 

 

We saw a young boy herding camels along the road. 

 

We stopped to visit these signs marking the spot where we officially crossed the equator south. 

 

 

We stopped at this fun and amazing restaurant along the road called the Trout Tree Restaurant. It is exactly like it sounds - a giant trout farm with a restaurant in a fig tree! Super delicious fresh trout.  

 

We made it back to the same hotel we stayed at for our first night. Everyone split off for dinner which was nice for the two of us to eat together for our anniversary. Daryl had also brought me an anniversary card from the US with him.