Road Trip for Pizza(:

Today started out very very early for me and if the people in Kenya have learned anything about me they have learned that I don't like having to get out of bed early.  But today was the day that I knew I was finally going to get me some pizza so I just had to force myself out of bed.  I was up by about 5a.m to shower up and get ready for we left around 6ish.  Just my luck though it was still dark outside at 5 in the morning and the power decided not to work this morning so I had to get ready all by my little purple glow stick flashlight haha it sure was a real hoot.  I didn't even give a damn what I looked like by the time I had gotten done with my freezing cold shower.  Threw the old hair in a wad, put the glasses on, and hide under a big sweatshirt.  I was on time for once and waiting by the gate for Wilfred to come and pick me up when I get a phone call from him saying I'm by the gate so just meet me there and I was like are you kidding me I'm by the gate and there is no one around Africans and there timing is never right!  Now I think I will just be waiting at my house for the phone calls instead of wasting time standing by the dumb old gate.  We walked down to the village center and started looking for the guys who would be driving our motorbikes to Bondo (about 30 minutes from the village) to catch the bus and head to Kisumu.  I was on a motorbike by myself and the driver and Wilfred went on a different one with somebody else already on it.  Three people on one bike looked pretty scrunched up.  I was kind of nervous to get on the motorbike because one of my fears before I came to Kenya was having to get on one of these and then the driver not taking me where I'm suppose to be going.  And I knew if this happened I would have no control of it.  Half the time the drivers don't even speak english so I had to put all my trust into my driver.  At first all went well because I knew that Wilfred was always just right behind me but not long into the ride my driver started slowing down which made the bike that Wilfred was on speed up and pass him.  I thought oh maybe my drivers doesn't know where to go so he needs to follow the other driver but oh boy was I wrong big time.  As soon as the other bike was out of site my driver took a fast turn and stopped in another village.  Not going to lie I was instantly terrified because I had no idea if Wilfred would notice that we were not behind him anymore.  Thank god though he did and they turned their bike around to come find us so my driver but our bike back on the right dirt road and we were off again.  It didn't take long for the driver to pull the same thing again on me expect for this time he pulled into someones property and turned off his bike and there were two other guys there.  Thats when I was beyond scared I'm like great of course the one thing that I feared would happen it does.  I could see that Wilfred was trying to call my driver but he very rarely answered it.  The driver told me to stay on the bike and he got off and went into the house and but came back very shortly.  Next thing I know Wilfred is running down the street and found me on this persons property.  I was soooo glad to see him!  Right away Wilfred started to yell at my driver and from then on I wasn't allowed to ride on the bike by myself so I was squished in the middle between the driver and Wilfred.  It made for one long ride but I sure felt A LOT safer so thats all that mattered.  When we arrived in Bondo we bought the bus tickets and had just a short wait for the bus to arrived.  That short wait turned into a nap for me with Wilfred trying to wake me up to get me on the bus for which ended up in another hour and a half nap.  Me and my sleep I love it!  I finally have got use to the terrible roads here so all of the bumps and stopping didn't even bother me.  Once we reached Kisumu we rode in a little vehicle that only had three wheels and had a steering wheel like one on a motorbike would.  That was one of the craziest rides I have ever been on here.  We were on a search for a grocery store to get me some "real" food.  Every time the driver stopped the car thing for Wilfred to get out and ask someone where we could find a grocery store I immediately would jump out of the car to for I was still scared that this driver might take off with me in it.  Poor Wilfred he probably got annoyed that I was attached at his side the rest of the day.  We ended up finally finding a grocery store that sold food that I would eat haha that was the main reason it took us so long to find a grocery store.  Before you enter any building you have to get checked by the security and they normally would always just let me go through without touching me thank goodness because some of the people they didn't seem very nice to.               In the store we were able to find me some brown bread, spaghetti noodles, spaghetti sauce (Ragu which is an american name brand I could recognize), and cheese!  I thought to myself boy am I going to be eating good for awhile haha it will be like 5 stars for me compared to what I have been eating.  At the next grocery store we found some cereal, mac and cheese, and pancake mix boy did I get lucky!  Our next mission was to go and find me some pizza!!  I was just absolutely thrilled about this :D  The only place that sold pizza was a fancy hotel and by the time we got there it was around 10am so they were still serving breakfast.  Luckily they still let us order a pizza to go but we had to wait for about 45 minutes.  I was thinking heck I will sit here all day if I know that I will eventually get this pizza that I have now been looking forward to for two weeks!  Once we got the pizza we were off to the bus station again with our backpacks now full of all the groceries and bought and Wilfred carrying my pizza.  The smell of it was taunting me the whole way.  We made one more stop before we got on the bus and by the time the sun was beating down on use.  The "bus" we ended up using was the same type of vehicle that my parents and I took for our safari.  The thing is since time is such a problem with Africans in the first place they don't have set times that the vehicles leave instead they just leave whenever the seats are all filled up.  We really had no idea how long we would be kept waiting.  It ended up being about an hour and half of baking in the heat of the sun waiting for the van to leave.  I thought I was going to go crazy waiting.  All I wanted to do was get home to eat my pizza and take a long nap.  While we waited lots of people came up to our windows in the van trying to sell us all sorts of stuff.  Wilfred was starting to get really pissed off and eventually said something to the driver who went and yelled at the people.  He sure got the job done because barely anybody would come by our van anymore.  Haha thank goodness because I was getting sick of getting bothered by them.  On the drive home we sat up front by the driver and I was pretty entertained watching him drive stick shift because that is what I was practicing back at home with my dad before I left.  When we arrived back in Bondo there was a huge bus with college students singing on it trying to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS which was pretty cool because there was a huge crowd gathered around.  Lastly we took a motorbike back to the village with the driver having Wilfred's backpack attached to his stomach then me squished in the middle and Wilfred in the back with my backpack and my pizza in his hands.  I was so exhausted by this time that I ended up falling asleep for a bit on the back of the drivers shoulder haha opps :p When we arrived home my pizza (with such a long journey it had) was all mixed up and flipped over but boy I have to tell you that was the best thing that I have eaten in weeks!  I look forward to our next pizza adventure sometime in the near future!! Now I will have to teach the helpers here how to cook some of the foods I bought and I know they will be excited to do that because they have been fascinated by everything else they have made with me.  The one thing that they did try though that was definitely not normal was spaghetti noodles with scrabbled eggs and onions and tomatoes all mixed together (interesting to say the least haha) ! I'm off now to enjoy another very hot Kenya day (: