Safari: Hunt with your eyes, not with your guns.

Hey, how's it going? That's good to hear, and how's your grandma? Wonderful! Well, now that we've heard about you, let's talk about me. (hahaha!) Well as the title suggests we (this is Joey speaking for Megan and Joey) have just returned from safari. No, nothing was killed. I only hunt animals with a gold plated colt .45 and a diamond tipped machete, and I forgot both of those in Virginia (cut to scene of my pistol and machete laying on the bed). So we just watched animals. But boy did we watch them, I've never felt so creepy.

Our guide Isaac (who also happens to be the person who is putting us up in Kenya) took us around Maasai Mara National Park, the most famous park in all of Kenya. He then proceeded to drop some mad jungle knowledge on us. If you want all the details come find me when we get back, but here's a short teaser. In the Kenyan parks there are the five big animals - the elephant, the lion, the cape buffalo, the leopard, and the black rhino. Of these five you are guaranteed to see three - the elephant, the buff, and the lion. However, we were able to see all five, which is very rare for one outing. And to top everything off we saw a dung beetle. While the dung beetle is not techinically part of the big five it is way goofier and thus awesome. We were also there during the beginning of the wildebeast migration. From late June through July, the wildebeast migrate from Tanzania to Kenya. They smell the oat grass blossoming (I smelled it too, smelled kind of like fruity pebbles. More of a Lucky Charms man myself, stupid wildebeast). When they smell it they go nuts and run to it. We got there at the very beginning, so there were only about 10,000, by the end there will be 1.2 million. That was pretty jawesome. That was a very short summary of what we saw, I also footraced with a cheatah and wrestled a zebra. But that's for another post.

Isaac also took us to the Maasai village. They are a group of the fiercest warriors in Kenya. 160 of them live in the village together and we were given a tour. Arm Wrestling wins 160-losses 0. While there I got a Maasai warrior's club. So far I've only been able to test it out on the hundreds of thousands of flamingoes we saw on Lake Nakuru this morning, but by the end of the trip I hope to have slayed at least one dragon with it.

Also, I've given Megan the nickname of Meganzu. In Ki-Swahili Mzungu means white person, so I assume Meganzu would mean white Megan. I gave her this nickname because she is incapable of tanning. I, however, am a crisp red and brown.

Any questions so far? You, in the back? No, you're just stretching.

Ok, well, things are good. Hope all is well in the States. Still don't know Ki-Swahili for good-bye so I'm just going to leave now. Oh and more soon on life in the village, etc.

p.s. if you'd like another perspective on our Kenyan (and soon to be Ugandan) adventures, check out our friend Jake's blog as well. www.jambowambo.blogspot.com.