Divits...and Other Things that Don't Go with Beds

This is amazing.

When we got to our room last night (Emily and I are sharing one – AND a double bed), everything looked great, except for the fact that the mattress looked oddly like a lower case letter “v.”
We both looked at it sideways, thinking maybe if we looked at it from just the right angle everything would be okay.
Not so much.

There were two pillows: one that went with the bed and one we got from Mercy’s roommate, Angie. Emily had Angie’s, and I had the one that went with the bed.
Within seconds, however, I discovered that this was not exactly a pillow. It was a pillowCASE that involved two separate things inside that LOOKED like pillows, but were actually square rocks trying to disguise themselves as pillows. OMG.
I tried to sleep on them anyway. I was boiling hot.

Two hours later – probably around 1:30am, the sounds of wild dogs barking and children screaming (the walls here are very thin) - woke us up.
I hear Emily say, “this is AMAZING.” We both started laughing, because we were BOTH stuck in the bottom of the bed divit.
It was at this point that I tried to move my head, and found that my neck was locked in place due to sleeping on rocks. LOL! Good thing I had an airplane pillow in my backpack. I pulled it out and tried to sleep on that. I couldn’t go back to sleep for about two hours, and every muscle in my body hurt from the weird mattress. Plus – mosquitoes were humming and landing regularly on my face. Somehow I didn’t get bitten, but Emily did.
Around 5am the loud Call to Prayer came over the loudspeaker from the mosque next door. That prompted more dog barking and baby screaming, and more realization that we were stuck in a bed divit.
Wow.
I popped some advil.
Back to sleep. Now I was freezing.
More mosquito humming.
More face slapping.

It was about this point that Emily started having a conversation with herself in her sleep. She was clearly pissed, it sounded like she was literally snarling at someone or something. Hilarious.
At 7:30, Mercy popped her head into the room and announced that she was heading off to school.
We woke up for a few minutes, I realized that I didn’t think I could move if I tried...and yet somehow we went back to sleep.

At 12:30 we woke up SHOCKED that it was that late. I couldn’t move.
More Advil.

We both got a good laugh about the bed and pillow situation, and Emily snarling in her sleep, and decided that we both wanted showers. That proved to be a problem, because there was no running water in the place. They ration their water, so water is always limited, but for some reason we don’t have any today. Ach!

Since there was no water, and really no food, once Mercy came back from school at about 1:30 we went grocery shopping. We each put in 5000 KSH (maybe $50) for food for the next two weeks, and got a bunch of staples. The grocery store was like Giant on crack. You could buy everything plus clothes, furniture, paint, stationary....you name it. One stop shopping.

We were hoping the water would be back on when we got here, but it isn’t. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow!