Another Wedding

Another Wedding: Getting there OH BOY

March 5

We began our journey from Kitale in a school bus that’s more like a touring bus than the yellow school bus that we are familiar with. I road in the front seat straight across from the driver. OK, I’ll say this first. The guy knew how to drive this bus! I mean he was great! Now what I don’t understand is why we didn’t pop any tires on the trip. Kenya’s roads aren’t what you call good. For the most part they are full of pot holes and  the government doesn’t take good care of them. Don’t know why, but that’s how it is. Anyway, so the bus driver just barrels right on through the holes, like they don’t exsist. It’s crazy. Then here in Kenya, traffic laws are either non-existant or just not followed at all. OK so picture this if you will. We are in a huge bus driving down the road. A car pulls up on the left to pass us cause we are basically in the middle. Then a car pulls up on the right to pass. Both of the cars are on the shoulder. Then we in the big bus, begin to pass a truck, not just a pick up mind you, but what they call here in Kenya a Lorry! So here’s 2 cars, 1 Lorry, and a huge bus all traveling fast down a 2 lane road all in the same direction!! CRAZY stuff.  All I can say after sitting in the front seat, I’ll be sitting elsewhere on the way home. LOL And that is just one instance where it got a bit hairy.

Once we got to the church in Eldoret, the bus parked and we walked into Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church.  Now this wedding was a bit different from the last wedding I went to. First off, the choir was really good. The service itself began with a mass, which blew me away cause like always it was in Swahili and I didn’t understand a word. UGG. The entire ceremony was 3 hours long. Now I don’t know if that is normal for a Catholic church or not. I’ve never been so I have no frame of reference. All I know is that the service was “hecka long.”

The reception was at The Eldoret Sports Club in Eldoret.  I looked it up on the Internet, and all I can say this place was nothing like what is pictured on the Internet. LOL  Dummy me thought it would. I should know better by now.  Anyway, the food was pretty good, and pretty much standard for a Kenyan wedding. The music is way to loud, I mean so loud that the sound is crappy. Normally I’d really look forward to the cake, but not so much at a Kenyan wedding. The cake is kinda like a spice type cake with raisens in it and you only get a bite and not a piece of cake. So it’s a little disappointing not to get to eat cake at a wedding. It’s a wedding and you get to eat cake, right? NOPE, so very sad. And to think I know of a couple of weddings back home in July and I won’t be there to eat cake, and that’s even more sad. But I’ll be at Nick and Annette’s wedding. I just hope they have a traditional American wedding cake. PLEASE, pretty PLEASE.

OK this wedding took 8.5 hours. Now personally I think that is a little excessive, don’t you think? But I must admit is was nice to get out of Kitale for the day even if I had to wear a skirt. I”m wearing shorts all day tomorrow. it’s getting late and the bus driver pushes the gas, and then he breaks, ugg.

On the way back home I could have sworn that we were going to crash. That road is just plain ole scary at night. I’m glad I’m finally home and in my room on my computer. OH and I told Edna and Alice that this was the last Wedding I”ll attend in Kenya. They just take way to long. 

Visiting Choir

March 6

A choir from Turbokabkong or Turbo to sing. I felt lousy so I didn’t stay long. I think traveling to and from Eldoret yesterday did me in. It’s not the traveling part, but rather it’s the dust part. The road is so bad with holes and parts no pavement at all there is so much dust that just really got to me. There is a lot of dust here in Kitale and surrounding areas. I think I just had my personal fill of dust for a couple of days and that’s why I feel lousy. I wish I felt better so I could have heard their choir.