We had a productive, tiring, and really fun weekend! We spent Saturday basically doing errands. We basically walked across downtown Nairobi in the morning to go to a repair shop to try to fix a wireless modem (no luck), and we spent the afternoon at one of the local malls (the Sarit Center) getting a new wireless modem, going grocery shopping, etc. A view of a Nairobi street from a pedestrian bridge We walked by a large market downtown Someone has opinions about mangoes, which we eat most nights for dessert Sunday was the fun day. First we went to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage , where we got to pet baby elephants! I have been so excited to do this with Toby. We happened to be right near where the elephants walk to get to where they are fed bottles of milk and tree branches, so Toby got to touch one little one when it was walking in, and most of the group of 10 slightly older ones when they were done eating and left to forage in the bush for
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