Kenya Safari

I am sorry I haven't kept you very up to date on what is going on here in Kenya. Rudy and I arrived here in Kijabe down in the Rift Valley about an hour and a half outside of Nairobi late last Tuesday afternoon. Our first couple of days here we helped do a few small construction projects here at Dan's(Dan is my sister's father in law) house. We really enjoyed the cooler weather here as we were getting a little toasty in Pemba.

On Friday morning we left for the trip of our lives. When I say we I mean Dan, Philip, Joia, Keenan, Moriah, Rudy and I. We took a five hour drive to get to the Masi Mara game park. A good position of our trip was through the Rift Valley it was very cool driving along the road and seeing giraffe, zebra, gazelle and wildebeest off in the distance. It was almost serial seeing the animals you kind of ask yourself am I really seeing this this was before we even got into the game park. We arrived in time for them to show us to our "tents" with electricity, flush toilets, hot water and big beds. Not quite what you would think of if you were going normal camping. Then we had a superb buffet lunch before our first safari. I will let the pictures do most of the talking here Cause they say a picture is worth...........

Wildebeest

Giraffe and Zebra

Impala

Zebras

Grant Gazelle

Baboon

Ostrich

Crested Crain

Hartebeest

Hippos

Water Buck

We had lots of these monkeys outside our tents we weren't sure what kind they were,but this mother had her little baby with her.

Dik Diks are the smallest animals of the Gazelle family

One of the ten cubs we saw.

Nursing Lioness

Pictures never make these awesome creatures look as big as they are.

They grass lands in the park were so beautiful.

Guinea fowl

Big Croc

Baby Croc

Not sure what kind of birds these are.

On the left a Thompson Gazelle, Hartebeest and a Topi

Daddy Lion

Who shall I eat first?

I loved the Elephant way off in the distance.

Cheetah

Nap Time

Ostrich

Crested Crain

I think this is an Egyptian Duck.

Topi

This Green Mamba came slithering into the dinning room one day at lunch.

Thompson Gazelle

Whole Family

A group of the Masi men who sang for us in the dinning room.