Molly's African Adventures: African Wedding

So my Friday got a little busy for blogging, my apologies. I started off the day by heading to St. Andrews for their closing ceremony. Everyone said it would be over by noon, and I told them I absolutely had to leave by 1 to get home to help prepare for the wedding. I think part of me knew this wouldn't happen. I've gotten way to used to African time. When I got to school, I went into the teacher's room to find them all busy grading and filling out report cards for all 200 and something students. By hand of course. They put me right to work and I helped one of the teachers, Musa, put together the student's overall grade, their class position and a final remark for each student. I hope they didn't look at each other's because some of the remarks started to sound very similar to one another. The ceremony finally started around 1:30 with every single student and teacher packed into one classroom.

The funniest part was for each class they had the announced the top 10 students and had them come to the front of the room. As you can see, there wasn't exactly any space between the chairs, and in many cases there were two people per chair. So every person that had to come up was climbing over everyone else to make their way up to the front. The closing ceremonies went well, and I said goodbye to all of the students and teachers then went on my way back home. At home I had 130 cupcakes, and 3 cakes awaiting my arrival for decorating. Any baking or creativity genes went right to my sister, but I figured I'd give it a try. She gave me her cake decorating kit (which of course she owns), and a frosting recipe and said good luck! I figured I could get everything done in about two hours, wrong. I started decorating at 3:15 and finished around 10, with a dinner break of course. Luckily I had Gina there to help me or else I don't think I would have ever finished. Here are some pictures of the final products:

The bride and groom were very excited, so that's all that matters. I'll call my cake and cupcake decorating a success.

The actual wedding was really special. The invitation said to be there at 10:30 for an 11 o'clock start, but once again, this is Africa. I'm pretty sure the ceremony started around 1 or 1:30, because we had to wait for Mwangi and Muthoni's families to come from Mt. Kenya. The ceremony went very well, and Greg did a great job preaching along side a Kenyan pastor. After the ceremony was over Mwangi and Muthoni cut the cake, and then there was a big feast of sheep stew, potatoes and some sort of vegetable dish. Here are some pictures from the wedding, I think pictures do a much better job capturing the event than words can do.