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Anyone who has ever done field work will know the feeling of looking at your field notes or data sheets and thinking "what the hell was I thinking?!" because no matter how hard you try you'll never "remember what I meant later". That basically sums up last week for me, nothing too drastic, but just a few extra minutes of thinking about what I had written in the field. It also probably didn't help that I drew my data sheets instead of printing them. My independent research is going well, except that baboons and elephants had ruined my seed collection trays. I am still really excited about the data I am collecting on cactus density near trees, it looks promising!!

So in light of field failures (well, mostly because we just like to have fun), last weekend we went into Nanyuki town for the weekend. Friday we had lunch with our field techs, did some shopping and visited with some friends in town. The friends with the bunnies, which I am still trying to not take home. And OBVIOUSLY we planned to go dancing!

Milka and I

There is a little boutique next to the grocery store in town that I like to pop into whenever I’m in town. I’ve never actually bough anything from there because it’s a bit pricy, but one day there were a group of the ladies that work there talking about boys. Which is a subject I frequently talk about. So, after a fit of giggling, picture sharing, and general girl talk, I ended up getting all my friends invited to the store owner’s birthday party which took place last Saturday.

Kenyan birthdays are SO MUCH FUN! There is a lot of singing, dancing, drinking, laughing and of course, cake literally shoved into everyone’s faces, wedding style. What's a party without dancing!?! After a get together at Milka's house, we ventured to Sporty's, the local club/bar/hotel and danced until 4am.

                                                                               I even DJ'ed for a bit in the Captains booth.



















               And Rhiannon made the sweetest new friend.














Everyone there had such contagious smiles and personalities, we all had so much fun celebrating together and met some beautiful, strong Kenyan women.