The heat.....

I am in my second outfit of the day. I was only out from 8:30 am until 10:00 am today.  I learned my lesson as last week I left the apartment to go to the other side of the peninsula to Silpway shopping center and the Doubletree hotel.  I started at 11am and I was to stubborn to take a tuk tuk or cab because I wanted the exercise.  Big mistake.

 http://www.slipway.net/

 I was so tired and frazzled from the heat that I walked around briefly and then I walked into the nicely air conditioned Doubletree Hotel.  It's a nice hotel but what I hate about the chain hotels is they make everything so difficult and billable. I asked about lunch and internet connection.  I cannot use WiFi if I am not a overnight guest and the staff wasn't making any exceptions.  If you saw the area where the hotel was in I think you would agree that abuse of WiFi was not going to be their biggest issue.  Plus I needed lunch as l spent two hours midday out in the sun as I had got myself lost and I had to back track a bit. It took us less than ten minutes by car in some traffic a few days ago. Many places we go around here for lunch or dinner boosts on their door front offering free WiFi because apartments like ours does not have the capability unless maybe if you get TV. 

 The disheveled, sweaty mess that I was worked when I went into our shoppers plaza on the way home. The checkout lady asked me if I had a loyalty card.  I have been in there a handful of times before and no one asked me for a discount card. Andrew would have been proud.  I signed up and I then ventured outside to take a tuk tuk home.  I was told to barter down if the driver asked for more than 2000 shillings to the apartment.  No need as he took one look at heat induced me and offered the low price right away. It was so hot the suncream was running down my legs.


 I haven't been badly burnt yet but I have been using factor 50 everyday.  We are just a few hundred miles south of the equator. Andrew told me that the ozone layer is thicker here so I will not get burned as bad......a Firefox search did not give any proof to that theory of his so I am staying safe.  I wonder where he heard that fact.







This is pretty much the average this time of year...... Andrew pumps the air at night oso I have to still use the sheet to keep warm.I am going to hide the air remote control! :)

 These are the clothes I brought that I will never put on.....I wear light weight scarves a lot over the my shoulders to keep the sun at bay, fend off the mosquitos, warm up from the air conditioning and to be a bit modest as most ladies either have a long skirt and tank or shorter skirt and more coverage on top.  I see a lot of scarves....hmmm may need to pick some more up.
Never gets below mid-seventies at the moment at night.  I love it most of the time.

In closing, I am getting used to sweating all the time just by walking outside, my skin feels good at times with high humidity, twice a day showers are OK if you put the air on before getting in or don't bother taking one and I am getting used to my new found body perfume.