This is Darlene. First of all, I should say that we had a very lovely weekend in our beautiful campsite right on Lake Naivasha, with thick grass and a beautiful canopy of acacia trees. It was a welcome change of scenery and extremely peaceful...during the daytime.
We maybe had an inkling of what we were getting into when the manager of the campsite where we stayed told us ahead of time that there would be a live band that we would need to pay for. It wasn't too much, so we didn't mind. When we arrived and saw the restaurant space/concert area, we thought it looked like a perfect place to chill, and live music would probably make it even better.
They started at about 8:45 p.m.--about 45 minutes late (pretty typical). Good music; nice bluesy, funky sound; pretty weird crowd with a mix of young and old--travelers, "Kenyan cowboys," and hangers-on. The band itself seemed to be a mix of Gen Xers and baby boomers. When we walked from the onsite restaurant to the campsite at about 10 p.m. to begin getting ready for bed, they were still going strong. When we turned out the headlamp at around 11, the music had picked up pace. I thanked God I had packed earplugs (two pairs, although David didn't need them) and put them in at about 11:15 p.m. I woke up after 3:00 a.m. to the sound of thumping bass and drums. David heard the morning sounds of birds chirping before they finally relented somewhere around 5:00 a.m.
We were a little thrown off by the whole experience. I remember turning over sometime around 3:30 a.m. thinking to myself, "we paid more money to sleep less!" And it was hard to understand what, other than wandering, brought many of the people there to dance and drink until morning light.
We will post more pictures of our time in Naivasha and Crater Lake Sanctuary soon. I wish I could show you a picture of this band and their groupies, though, just so that you could help us try to understand the contradictions packed into the experience. David greeted one of the staff members the next morning, who asked him conspiratorially whether we partied hard until the morning. We wondered whether that was all he saw of mzungus.
We maybe had an inkling of what we were getting into when the manager of the campsite where we stayed told us ahead of time that there would be a live band that we would need to pay for. It wasn't too much, so we didn't mind. When we arrived and saw the restaurant space/concert area, we thought it looked like a perfect place to chill, and live music would probably make it even better.
They started at about 8:45 p.m.--about 45 minutes late (pretty typical). Good music; nice bluesy, funky sound; pretty weird crowd with a mix of young and old--travelers, "Kenyan cowboys," and hangers-on. The band itself seemed to be a mix of Gen Xers and baby boomers. When we walked from the onsite restaurant to the campsite at about 10 p.m. to begin getting ready for bed, they were still going strong. When we turned out the headlamp at around 11, the music had picked up pace. I thanked God I had packed earplugs (two pairs, although David didn't need them) and put them in at about 11:15 p.m. I woke up after 3:00 a.m. to the sound of thumping bass and drums. David heard the morning sounds of birds chirping before they finally relented somewhere around 5:00 a.m.
We were a little thrown off by the whole experience. I remember turning over sometime around 3:30 a.m. thinking to myself, "we paid more money to sleep less!" And it was hard to understand what, other than wandering, brought many of the people there to dance and drink until morning light.
We will post more pictures of our time in Naivasha and Crater Lake Sanctuary soon. I wish I could show you a picture of this band and their groupies, though, just so that you could help us try to understand the contradictions packed into the experience. David greeted one of the staff members the next morning, who asked him conspiratorially whether we partied hard until the morning. We wondered whether that was all he saw of mzungus.
2 comments:
Makes you almost grateful for that Garth Brooks Live cover band at the parish retreat...
haha, our thoughts exactly!!
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