Unbelievable

"You wouldn't believe it, so I am not going to tell you...." That's what LeRoy suggested we write for our time on Safari. Truly unbelievable.

Suffice it to say - a little bit of culture shock when arrived at a 5 Star resort - complete with our own safari drivers, wait staff and morning wake up call with our choice of hot beverage. Amazing sounds, hippos in and out of the river along the resort and the visit of the Hyracks - all night long. Sunrise on the morning game drive, sunset on the evening game drive and over 30 different animals. Seeing the Big 5 (and I don't means sporting goods store). We have outstanding pictures and new friends from the Mara.

We arrived in Nairobi after a long drive from the Mara. We seem to want to stick close together as we will begin to part ways this evening. We stayed again at Gracia House - and talked over breakfast this morning how much we'd experienced in the last 2+ weeks since we had breakfast here together last. Today we will get some shopping done, re-pack our bags and say goodbye this evening to Paula and LeRoy (who leave tomorrow for Rwanda) and Jeff and Christine who will stay here a few more days and bring their son Chris and a friend home from RVA for the mid semester break.

Timing is good today - Chris has a soccer (football) game in Nairobi today. Jeff and Christine will be able to go while we grab dinner. They'll come pick us up and take us to the airport. We leave for Amsterdam tonight and about 24 hours later will be back in Portland - we're headed home baby, we're headed home. Mixed emotions right now.....sad to say goodbye for now (little teary) and also love the idea of seeing our families again and sharing our stories and hearing theirs.

Until then - Asante Sana for reading along (thank you very much).

LaLa Salama (sleep peacefully..... Wednesday night.......)

Love and kisses, Nancy