Our mini vaca

Our night away into Nairobi for our anniversary was fabulous.

As I said before, we began our evening with dinner at Cafe des Arts. They have a wonderful patio dining area that is covered by a large tent cover. It is a lovely place to relax and enjoy good food:

Ian was pretty excited about his dinner, he even looks like he's glowing a little

Here’s an up close of his shredded lamb, slow cooked for 9 hours, then put into a patty that is refrigerated and then grilled just prior to service:

Lamb with mini roasted potatos

I choose the spinach quiche (I love quiche) in hopes of saving room for dessert. The dessert turned out to be pretty standard European dessert…a little dry and not quite sweet enough. Next time, I’ll go all out on the dinner itself. Here I am in a blanket shawl the restaraunt owner gave me when it began to storm outside:

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We had a wonderful time, and we still enjoy being together!

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Then, we found our way to the Serena Nairobi which was wonderful. I had to take a few pictures of our accommodations as this is the nicest place I’ve been a quite a while. We felt pampered, and relaxed and renewed. It was the perfect was to spend the rest of our anniversary.

Ian relaxing in the air conditioned room

When we arrived in our room it was pretty darn cold so I started to hunt around for the thermostat. It was NO WHERE TO BE FOUND! Ian even had me look in the closet. So, finally, I sat on the bed in defeat and looked over at the nightstand. And what do you know? There on the nightstand was the REMOTE CONTROL for the air conditioning! Never seen that before! It was great.

This is the fabulous bathroom that was pretty much my favorite part of the trip. That gives you insight into our every day bathroom situations, because a bathroom is not generally my favorite feature to point out: