SAFARI day #2 & #3 (6-17/6-18-09)

When we left the Farmhouse hotel we drove to Ngorongoro Crater. I rode with David, Bobby and Candice throughout the day, it was really fun. In the morning we saw the Masai tribe hearding their cattle on the way up the mountain and in the crater itself. The crater was very dry but very pretty. We didn't se very many elephants but we saw lots of zebras and we drove around in the dust all day but it was great being with some of the funniest people on the trip. Our hotel was insane! Wehad huge rooms, great pressured showers, awesome salad at dinner and an amazing view. The dinner building thing looked out over the crater and the sunset was epic, I had never seen one that beautiful in my life.
We got up early because we didn't see much the day before and we all wanted to see lions. Well the first thing we saw as we left our hotel were two lions that were about to mate, as we drove further we saw two lionesses and their cubs in the road it was awesome, if you are into that sort of thing. Later in the morning this cheetah comes running across the field toward some antelopes/ gazelles i dont really know but it was really cool. We had three of our trucks on the road at that point watching the cheetah when out of no where like 20 trucks show up and blockade the road in order to see the cheetah. Apparently cheetahs are rare to be seen. The safari was definitely some of the funnest time, I couldnt stop smiling because I was so happy to be with the people I was with in one of the coolest places I have ever been to. God seriously made some awesome creation. On the way back to Arusha one of our trucks broke down and venders were trying to sell things to us through the windows it was hilarious. Bobby was sending everyone to Nate in the truck across the street and he was loving it, actually probably not whenever Bayli started calling him dad and asking him to buy her something. Nate ended up bartering a pen and some apples along with some money for some carving. I am seriously going to miss laughing and being around so many funny people.

SAFARI day #1 (6-17-09)

We freaking went on Safari today! We started out at 9 and drove to the game park. I was in a truck with Thiersten, Ashley, Rachel, and Nate. We saw an elephant and some giraffes. We went to a hippo pond and saw zebras running behind them. It was incredible and so pretty. For lunch we ate a huge donut, 2 fried samosas, fried chicken, a pancake, and cookies, it was all cold and really bad. After lunch at one point after lunch this elephant got really close to our truck and we saw family of elephants with two babies it was really sweet. We drove to hotel which was amazing. they had there own mid size garden which we walked through or at least some of us. We had hot pressurized showers and a nice dinner. What an awesome day!

POOHDUNKER in the Village

OK so I was going to write a long thing about my experience in the village and tell you all about it but it will be better like this and take less time.
SOOO............
1. Having Mark drive Bayli and I to the village together and staying so close was the best thing about spending a night in the village.
2. Not doing anything but sitting and watching people cook
3. greeting people and walking for like 3 hours around the village
4. this lady asked me if i liked avocadoes and i said yes so she walked over to the tree climbed it and collected tons of avocadoes in this bag and i had to carry it a mile back to my village house
5. taking video with Bayli of the chicken they killed for her to eat
6. using the cho at Bayli's house and the door was so small i had to crawl through the door
7. helping cook in this brick house with no windows in the pitch black darkness of the african wilderness and not being able to breath
8. sitting with my host guy and all he talked about was needing money for his house and new church and not knowing what to say
9. while sitting in the dark house my guy pulled out a photo album and showed me his family and pointed out every single dead person that he knew including his 90 year old father. " that one he's dead!"
10. while walking through the village people constantly staring you like they had never seen a white person before and they kneeled to greet you.