The Rainbow Ruiri Resort

The hotel/resort we're staying at is called the Rainbow Ruiri Resort (the have a website if you want to check them out). By Kenyan standards it is a VERY nice hotel, by ours, it's a pretty nice hotel. The rooms are clean, the bathrooms have hot water and great water pressure. The staff is beyond accommodating. To give you an example, I mentioned in the last post that we arrived pretty late. By the time we got to the hotel it was midnight local time. The kitchen staff had stayed two hours past closing time to make sure there was hot food waiting for us! I don't care how many stars your hotel has, that just doesn't happen in the US. The desk clerk actually helped Dave set up a cell phone tonight - not her job, but she just wanted to help. I am in awe of how helpful they are - customer service that too many establishments I've been at recently could really learn from.

It was during that first midnight meal that I was introduced to Tusker. Tusker is a local beer with a big elephant on the label. It comes in 16 oz bottles, at least at our hotel, and is really quite good. Smooth and refreshing. Seeing as you can't drink the water, I've found that Tusker is a reasonable substitute! It's light like a Coors light, but it actually has flavor.

By the time dinner was done and everyone wound down, it was 2am local and I had been going for roughly 40 hours straight. I remember thinking that I was going to have a hard time falling to sleep in the strange bed, in the strange place, but that thought lasted about 30 seconds and the next thing I knew, it was time to get up.

Something I'll have to discuss in the next post is the shower situation. Yes, I have a shower, but no, it has no shower curtain. I've been using a hand held sprayer to wash my kids for years, but I never actually though about having to spray myself without a shower curtain!