Today is the 6'th day of my visit with Kimani, and I just realized that his first name is Kimani, not Maruge. Today we got a souvenir of my trip. First, we went to the village market, which looks a lot like the Santa Barbara Farmer's Market. We found a lot of fruits and vegetables, some bracelets, and some sort of smoothies that smelled like beans. It was very loud there with all the bargaining and chomping of buyers and sellers. Since the stuff we saw wasn't souvenir-worthy to us, we looked around for a different place. We found a shop eventually that was an old-looking place and had a lot of books in the window. We found a very smoothly carved wooden toy that looked like a horse, or maybe a gazelle, with wheels, and it cost 416 Kenyan shillings, or 5 US dollars. We decided that it was good enough to be a souvenir, and so we bought it, and I'm going to take it home. This was a pretty good day. Since I couldn't get the marketplace video to work, here is a link: http://www.our-africa.org/kenya/local-market-and-cafe. It shows all the excitement of a Kenyan market.
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