Safari!!!

This will be a long one guys. 

So this weekend I went on a safari at Masaii Mara National Park and Lake Nakuru National Park. IT WAS AMAZING! Friday morning we drove to Maasai Mara and went for a little game drive. Saturday, we spent the entire day in Maasai Mara. We saw monkeys, baboons, elephants, cheetahs, water buffalo, lions, warthogs, zebras, giraffes, antelope, gazelles, rhinos, hippos, hienas and birds. The coolest things were a huge lion (Aslan, obvs) eating a water buffalo, a pack of hienna's eating a flamingo, hippos fighting, and antelope mating. We also saw babies of every single animal. Baby elephants and lion cubs are the cutest. I basically saw the cast of the lion king. Also on saturday, our safari van got stuck in the mud. We had to get out and push, and we all got splattered in mudd, and to add to the situation, there were lions really near, and we were surrounded by tall grass so we couldn't see them coming. That night I accidently deleted all my pictures when I was trying to delete the bad animal pictures. This means the naked bungee jump video is gone forever, and all my pictures of the orphanage. I had pictures of the kids with all the things people sent for them. I was pretty upset about it. After dinner, we watched a Maasai dance around the fire, and we joined in for a bit. They make these weird throat noises and jump a lot. They also smell bad because they never ever shower. I made of for my lack of pictures by taking lots of the Masaii and lots at Lake Nakuru on sunday. Lake Nakuru is amazing! It is full of flamingos (approx. 2 million) and its just like this sea of pink. This is where we saw the hienas eating one lol. We also saw rhinos and hippos here

On monday, linn and I headed back on the train to Mombasa. I'm happy to be back here. It's hot but its much less crowded and its way more beautiful. I took her to the hospital and showed her around, and we will start work tomorrow, because today we hit the beach. I missed the beach and i'm happy to be back! 

and here's my exciting news:
I'm not coming home after africa! I'm going to sweden to stay with linn for 4 days, then we are going to dublin for 3 weeks, then glasgow for 2 weeks, then paris for 5 days, then i'll spend one night in stockholm, one night in amsterdam, and i'll be home Aug 13 at 11:56pm! WOOOOOOOOO!

our plan is to rent a car in the UK and drive around the coast/sleep in our car. I'm so excited! 

LOVE :)