Dinner was  great at Kenyan Café.  Dennis the owner was most friendly and Tella the waitress did a great job. The food served is organic and the many items from Africa hanging on the walls, made us feel like we were on the big continent.    We ordered spiced tea, mochas,  or Kenyan coffee.  The orders were placed for our entre and soon the food arrived in big bowls on top of big plates with cool designs.  The food all smelled delicious and everyone found their meal to their liking.  I had Matoke with Goat Stew.  Matoke is  plantains unripened so they are crunchy (like bananas) and  kale was the green vegetable.  It was very good, after I picked out the bones from the goat.  Goat is a harsher version of lamb, with a hint of venison.  The spices made it slightly hot but not too hot.  Melissa had the Matoke vegetarian, Nora had Chicken Curry, Tom  had the hot spicy  chicken and I forget what Blair and Katie had but they both liked it.  We will most likely return for another try maybe on Thursday evening.  Wednesday is our banquet evening.  The passion of the Kenyan Café is serving unique food and speciality drinks that is healthy.  Kenyan food is not meant to be hot, but blend well with spices according to the menu. 

After dinner we drove to Wallgreens and looked for post cards, none to be found in our fair city.  Guess we will have to find the chamber of commerce to find a post card or the tourist bureau.  However wallgreen’s had sweatshirts for 5 bucks and hand warmers, so that was picked up by the crew for tomorrow morning.   Next it was time to find another way to cool our pallet from the Kenyan spices.  While it was definitely cooling outside, I decided that something else was needed for the tongue.  Now as luck would have it a Gelato store was between Walgreens and the motel.  So we stopped in the strip mall and also discovered an Indian buffet that might provide another evening meal in the future.  The Gelato is from Italy where there are over 370,000 gelato shops while only 1200 in the US.  Gelato began in the Italian Renaissance by Bernardo Buontalenti.  Gelato means frozen in Italian and as Katie pointed out  “Gelisols” are frozen soils.  It has less fat and fewer calories than ice cream and was first served in the Americas in 1770.  We sat and enjoyed our Gelato that came in many flavors and I was the only one to get chocolate. 

It is time to get some grading done, before my eyes close for the evening.  More is being added to my work pile, and if I don’t get some done before Wednesday, even more will be piled up.