A New Year Car Wash

For the second time I found myself celebrating New Years here in Kigali,Rwanda. I rung-in the 2009 year I went to an East African Concert. This year I went to Car Wash.
Now you might be asking yourself, what is this carwash, well let me tell you. It is a sports-bar/restuarant/alimentation, and a 24hr executive car wash, no joke. Over the past year it has become one of the most frequent places I go to. One of these reasons is because they play football matches on TV(premier league) and many non-rwandese go there, so English is commonly used, even amongst the other Africans. I also like it because its not white person central.
Speaking of white person central, on New Years that is what is was. Just like last year this year there is another group of volunteers(I am the only returnee). It was decided that this is where we would go for new years.no problem. A reservation was made and when we showed up at 9pm they had a huge table for us(we were about 25 white people+ others). They were smart enough to put us in the back, which is more secluded, this was some privacy was awarded, and we weren't a big muzungu freak show for everyone to watch, yet everyone watched us anyway..haha..
Overall it was a great night. Nothing fancy, just sitting around with friends and talking till it was new years. Before I knew it time had flown by and it was 2010.
A new year, and new decade, and new chapter of my life. I think that carwash was the perfect place to start these off.

The only not so great part of the evening was the bill. We had known with that many people things would get out of hand, but even with that foresight, it still did get out of hand. And we all know that when drinking in large groups is what we are talking about a bill is never going to be easy to sort out.. but we lived and we learned and we got out of the place without have to wash any dishes..haha..don't worry it wasn't really gonna come to that, but it was close..haha..

Hopefully wherever you and yours were you were able to have a great new years! Its hard to imagine that its 2010 already, it seems like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it is not..
With that said I did make my new years resolution to get me a flying car, just lke george jettison(daughter judy)..haha..sorry loved that show..
But seriously Happy New Years!!