2. Go to Rolph's Place for some paintball and horseback riding
3. Karaoke and Sushi boats. Yes, the karaoke gets as intense as it looks below...so do the sushi boats for that matter.
4. DP (Diamond Plaza), aka little India: Sari stores, CDs/DVDs, "The Best Unisex Salon" (that's seriously what the name is), and soft-serve kulfi ice cream
5. Visit Karen Blixen Museum and Coffee House. I had no idea who Karen Blixen was before going here but I knew she had to be relatively important because there is a whole suburb of Nairobi named after her. She is most known for her book Out of Africa which was adapted into the Oscar winning movie of the same name.
6. Traveling Masai Market. It is "traveling" because it is in a different place each day of the week. It is the best place to go and buy souvenirs though you have to do quite a bit of haggling to get fair prices. They normally start at 10X what anyone should pay.
7. Take a Matatu into town. A Matatu is arguably the most dangerous vehicle on the planet. They are known to run over people, drive in the opposite direction of traffic, play inappropriately loud music, and have irrelevant decals displayed on their back windows (e.g. "Balanced Equation", "Cease and Desist", "Customer"). Matatus are, however, only a quarter to ride - their only redeeming factor.
8. Go-Karting. Not much of a surprise, but I was really bad. No crashes to report, but I did come in second to last in both races (just beating an eight year old Indian girl who was appeared to be in no hurry to ever finish).
9. Work out at The Arena. With all the eating I have been doing, I started taking step and spin classes to get into shape.
10. Nairobi National Museum. Pretty good museum. Fun for dorky anthropology majors like myself because of the ancient skulls and fossils dating over 2 million years old. Brought me back to the days of Race and Human Evolution class...
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