Give me a S-A-F-A-R-I

On Sunday we decided that we wanted to go to the Maasai Mara for a safari. We were hoping to catch the wildabeast migration. So we called our friend Terri who said she had a friend who worked for a safari company. She called him and he gave us a pretty expensive price, so we decided to call this guy that approached us at the airport. We were a little skeptical about this guy because they usually prey on tourists, but we went with his company, Big Time Safaris. They picked us up monday morning and we headed off on the 4 hour journey to the game reserve. They had sweet trucks, which allowed us to stand up in them to see different animals. We got there and they put us in these sweet huts. Then we were out on our first trip to the game park. We saw thousands of animals. Lions, elephants, giraffes, zebra, gazelle, rhino, crocodiles, and hippos. Our driver, Joseph was awesome. He took us off the path a few times, literally 8 feet away from lions. On tuesday we were in the park all day checking out different animals. We ended up seeing a rhino at the very end of the day. The crazy thing is, there are only 5 of them in the park and they mostly never get seen. The only animal to allude us was the leopard, but we did see one of his kills in a tree. Overall, it was an amazing experience. The food was great and the people were amazing. What a great blessing.

Jumping with the Maasai Warriors.

Yesterday we hopped into this tiny truck with a friend of a friend, and he drove us to Nakuru, where Nick's parents have some family friends. There are families that live in this 20 acre compound and its beautiful. They are really nice and have provided us with a nice place to stay for a few days.

From here we plan on heading to Uganda to climb Mt.Elgon. Should be interesting.

Another crazy thing is the last 2 days it has been raining. Kenya was experiencing extreme drought and hopefully this rain allows for people to grow some good crops.

Thanks for all the responses.