Nakuru!

Halfway through our homestays the group took a 2 night outing to the town of Nakuru about 200 km northwest of Nairobi.  The entire trip was a shit show and nothing went according to plan.  It was awesome.  The drive should normally take around 2 hours, but due to a broken muffler, the president driving by twice, and a handful of other things it took us around 8 hours to get there (nothing compared to our adventure on the way back).  The following day, after learning that admission to Nakuru National Park was 75$ a person (our main reason for going to Nakuru) we spent a good amount of time messing around with monkeys and watching Devin almost get mauled by a baboon.

The next day, while planning to be back in Nairobi before 5 to eat dinner with our families, we decided to stop by the top of a large crater outside of town to see the view (beautiful by the way).  On our way down from the rim, our bus driver thought it to be a great idea to take a short cut down the hill.  To make a long story short, our bus soon was halfway leaning into a ditch and dangerously close to flipping.  After getting an entire village to attempt to help us out, we eventually had to grab our stuff and leave the bus as it started to rain some of the hardest rain I've ever been in.  After walking for a good 2 km in the rain and lighting (and only stopping once to let a herd of cattle pass by) we arrived a hotel where we could finally get lunch as we waited to see if the bus had fallen farther into the ditch or not.  By 9 pm (four hours later), half of us still hadn't received our food, we'd been charged double for almost everything, and we eventually ended up leaving very unsatisfied.  I didn't make it back to my home until after 2 in the morning and, aside from some roadside corn in the rain, didn't eat for a good 14 hours as well.  Great trip...