I'm kuku for kuku!

We now have our very own fast-food take out restaurant! A Kenyan fast food chain has opened up shop on the main street here in our quickly changing town! It's actually one of my favorite Kenyan fast food places for chicken and chips. So you can imagine my glee when I saw this one opening on the road as I cruised on down the brand new tarmac!

This afternoon, Annamarie and I were out and about, so we decided to try it out and take some home for dinner tonight. Turns out one of the waitresses there used to work at our other favorite Kenyan restaurant by the river (which we found out was closed when we tried to eat there for Eid). She remembered Annamarie, which was quite nice and welcoming :)

Anyways, I got my quarter chicken (wing and breast) and Annamarie got hers (leg and thigh), topped with a side of crispy fries and we were off down what we have dubbed "rag-doll ally" to get home before it all got cold. We almost stopped in the middle of the road to unpack it all and dive in, because it smelled so amazing. But we refrained, and made it home before eating!

Mmmm... it was so good! And it was all packed up in a little box with tin foil, plus a little packet of tomato sauce (that would be "ketchup"... well, I mean, as close to "ketchup" as you get in East Africa!) and a little packet of chili sauce. There was even a paper napkin in the box with it all! It was amazing! Real fast food take out. In Jb. This place has changed so much, I hardly even recognize it anymore!

Of course, the thing that made us so hungry for this chicken was a drive out in the country... well, ok, at least out to the suburbs! Annamarie has some South African friends who are starting up a brewery here, and they just moved out to a new camp/hotel this past week. So they invited us over to visit and to see the new digs. Well, ok, they invited Annamarie, and she just needed a driver :)

What an amazing place that was! I was a little worried about the road - we had to go along the road that nearly swallowed the Hilux last weekend, and it's been raining since then. So I actually stuck my gum boots in the back of the truck, just in case we got stuck somewhere! Turns out, though, they actually graded the road, and did some repair work to it. So it wasn't too bad - only one lake to drive through instead of 4.

So we made it safely out there, and were welcomed by a beautiful little establishment out in the 'burbs. It's really quiet, there's open feilds of grass, you have a view of the mountain, very little garbage, no loud motorcycles... really very peaceful. The best part is, they're building a SWIMMING POOL! I'm so going to keep up this relationship with these folks, just in case the pool gets finished before they have to move out of that place!

These little villa type houses that they're building are beautiful - tiled bathrooms, little kitchenettes, A/C, huge flat screen TV. Everything is clean and new and well-finished. I had forgotten such places like that exist in the world. The best part was when I went to wash my hands, HOT water came out of the tap! It was actually a little bit of a culture shock, to tell you the truth. I'm just so used to my dusty, hot, rickety old cold water only existence, that I forgot that not everyone lives like we do! Boy it sure was good to wash my hands in hot water. Next time I go, I'm bringing my soap and some clean underwear and jumping in the shower while Annamarie drinks her tea... they'll never notice that I've disappeared for a while, will they?