Thursday 18 February 2016

Our first game drive!

The wifi didn't allow me to send a post yesterday so now I am playing catch up!!  We went on our first game drive and it was wonderful!  We drove about 1.5 hrs from our camp to reach Lake Nakuru and The Nakuru National Park.  We started out by immediately seeing a huge heard of Cape buffalo and from then on in, it was "animals everywhere"!  We saw zebras, Rothschild giraffes, ostriches, Impalas, gazelles, storks, vultures, flamingoes, baboons, Elands, crested cranes, herons, and the highlight was seeing the white rhinos!!!  It is rough, bumpy, and dusty on safari and it is amazing!!!  We are in Toyota Land Cruisers and during safari the tops pop up to allow for great picture taking.  The guide/drivers are very knowledgeable and personable!
We stopped for lunch at a lovely lodge situated beside the lake and the food was amazing!
After lunch we continued on our safari for awhile before heading back to our lodge.
This lodge that we stayed at is incredible!  It is also beside a lake and the rooms are in 4-plex units and they were huge and beautiful!  We had to be escorted by security guys at night to walk around the grounds because the hippos come onto the property at night.
After dinner, we all went to the lounge for a sing a long.  We are so lucky to have an amazing pianist (Janet Symon) in our group.  She played piano while we sang along.  Half way through the sing a long we all ran out (with the guards) to see some giraffes, with a baby, as well as some hippos.  The guards were very nervous and were sure to keep us all close by their side!!

It was an amazing day and everyone was pumped and really "knowing"" that they are actually in Africa!!

Oh ya, supper was a little weird.... For meat we had a choice of liver, chicken gizzards or bbq goat!!! Mmmmm!  I got a plate of goat meat and everyone got to at least taste it.  My life is now complete, don't need to do that again!!

I am tired, gotta go to bed!  Still have today to write about (even more amazing) and pictures to post but that has to wait!!!

Good night!

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