Twiga [giraffe]

We're leaving for Mbita tomorrow morning on a ferry towards Kisumu!  Warning:  this might be the last time I have internet for the next two weeks.  You guys will go through Maria-withdrawal, or blog-withdrawal, or probably nobody will notice anyways!

We'll be camping for two nights at an impala sanctuary in Kisumu, and then we head to Kibale Forest in Uganda for ten whole days!  You know what that means.... more monkeys!

How about some safari pictures to tide you over for the next few weeks?

Let's start with some cute little buffaloes! (buffalo? buffali? buffaloni?)

And then there's these weird stripey horse things. I forget what they're called...

MUFASAAAA!

And all his itty bitty Simbas cuddling in the grass!

We didn't get to see the real pride rock, but this cloud pretty much did the trick:

We went on game drives almost every day while in the Maasai Mara area.  One day, we were driving through the reserve just to get to a conservancy on the other side.  It had been raining the night before, so the roads were a bit too much for our trucks to handle... One of them got stuck on the side of the road!  The staff spent nearly an hour and a half trying to dig the bus out of of the mud.  Here's a picture of half of my classmates walking through the Mara to get to the other truck.  (This brings back memories of that time Kevin drove into a ditch).

What they didn't know is that there were lions lurking not too far off in the distance!