Thanks for reading! As you can see, we had an incredible time on our journey!

Here are our favorites and not so favorites....

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One last bit of drama before leaving...I guess that's the way it goes right? ;)

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Ah....we are now in paradise, and it is incredible.

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We are in Zanzibar and Katie has bet me $100 that I wouldn't write another journal entry before we left for home. Well, she would have won if she didn't say something to me today. Anyway, I'll write one, no big deal!

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We are having an incredible time in Zanzibar. The internet connection at this cafe is expensive and very slow, so I will just be posting a few journals. There may be internet at our next hotel, so I could post pics tomorrow or the next day - we shall see!

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Today was our final game drive of the trip. Ngorongoro is a huge caldera/crater that was formed from a collapsed volcano, and has become the permanent home for a wide variety of animals.

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We left Serengeti to go to Ngorongoro Crater.

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Today we left an hour later than usual to go on a full day game drive. It ended up being a great day for viewing, but it was a LONG day.

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Hello! Haven't written in awhile - nothing too eventful has been happening. We left Uganda and said goodbye to Medi (sad again), and we travelled to Arusha.

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So I'm writing from inside a hotel that has four walls and doesn't stink of animal. Well, at least it doesn't smell too much. Haha! So anyway, once again I have nothing to say - I'll let Katie do all the talking. We almost stayed in a treehouse that was in my opinion a cardboard box in a tree. It had a family of spiders in the corner of the roof, you heard me right, corner of the roof. The place should be shut down. Then we stayed in a tent. All night we heard animals chirping, yelling, mooing, snoring, farting, walking. Whatever animals do at night. It was an experience. So I stayed up waiting for whatever to at least stop doing something to go to bed. We're having fun, but right now I love to go to a McDonalds! The people have been nice, and we've learned a lot, but I definitely miss home. We still have 2 weeks in Africa. Next we go to Tanzania, then on to Zanzibar, which hopefully is the island paradise that we've heard it is! Catch you all later!

We slept well in our tent -- we did hear some animals walking around outside though, so we didn't want to go to the bathroom! We were ok though - probably just some warthogs...

Yay! We finally saw a leopard! Mike spotted him crossing the road ahead of us, but by the time I had my camera out, he had disappeared. We also saw a hippo roaming around...those things really are huge.

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Today we woke up early to go back to the Nat'l Park for a Chimpanzee walk. We had breakfast up at Ezra's main house, and we had a chance to get to know him.

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July 1 - Going to Kibale

We finally arrived in Kibale after a very long day in the car.

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Just got done uploading a bunch of journals -- trying to upload photos, but it takes forever to put one photo up. I'll try to at least get a couple up there, so you can see what we are doing :)

So far I really love Uganda.

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Today we went on our second gorilla trek.

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What a great day for me! We went on our first of two gorilla treks.

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Jambo! Another fine day in Africa!

We got up for a 7:30 am game drive. Again, we did not see the leopard, but our driver, Michael, sure tried. We did see some cool things though...a baby (mtoto) rhino and its mother, a hyena chasing the pelicans on the shore of Lake Nakuru, and a LOT of baboon. We saw several babies and young ones too....soooo cute!

After the game drive, we headed back to Nairobi and the Giraffe Manor, our next overnight stay.

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SO its another wonderful night in Africa.

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Today we left Masai Mara to journey to Lake Nakuru which is about 4 hours drive away.

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Today was the day of lions!

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Visiting the Masai village was another very worthwhile thing we did today.

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This morning we got up at the crack of dawn to go on our balloon safari.

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Today we headed to Masai Mara, one of the most famous national parks in Africa. The day was so awesome, I don't know where to begin!

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Rather than going crazy sightseeing on our first day in Africa, we opted to rest up for the rest of our trip, and we didn't go to the museum or Nairobi Nat'l Park as we had talked about. We did however, go to The Carnivore Restaurant for dinner!

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Wow. We are finally here!

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We went to London yesterday and it was interesting...

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FINALLY! I was still very worried until the passports arrived at our house this Saturday! I jumped up and down for a minute or two! Now onto other preparations....

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The sky is NOT falling...well, hopefully :) ...

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Only 3 1/2 weeks until we leave, and I'm sweating bullets at the moment, let me share....

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