Back From Safari!

We got back to Pioneer Camp last night. It felt just like coming home! Never ever have I been so grateful to sleep in a bed. The safari trip was great. We spent two nights at the first camp. There we went on a "game walk" meaning taking a walk hoping to see some animals. As well as a boat ride on a beautiful river where we saw hippos! After that we went swimming in the same river, but in a secluded area where there were no hippos or crocodiles of course. After the first camp we drove a whole day and camped on the side of the road and headed off to the next place the next morning. We took a short fairy ride to Botswana and stayed in Chobe National Park for two days. Here goes the list of animals! Elephants, hippos, wild dogs, lions, baboons, giraffes, zebras, puku, antelope and a bunch of beautiful birds. Coming from the person who thinks birds are nasty and loves insects instead. After Chobe National Park we stayed two night at Victoria Falls. The camp was called The Water Front, it was more of a resort. It included a restaurant, two swimming pools and... real showers! I have to say, Victoria Falls was absolutely gorgeous. Most people that visit wear the rentable rain ponchos, but no we went all out! The girls and I got soaking wet, we looked as if we had just showered. It was incredibly refreshing. After seeing the falls we went on a walk by the other side of the massive water fall. We ran into some baboons... As we were walking one of the baboons hit Hanna on the leg and as she turned around it grabbed her water bottle and walked off with it! He tried to open the bottle and finally opened it successfully after going about it in every possible way. Once he opened the bottle, the large, human like baboon threw the cap over the edge where it must have fallen into the falls! It was definitely the highlight of our safari. There was a slight downer to the trip however, but it only lasted in the moment thankfully. It was due to the Tse-tse flies. These flies are viscous. They swarmed into the car, tens at a time and bit everyone multiple times... except for me, thankfully I tend not to get bit my any flies. But the bites sounded pretty painful by the screams of the girls! I did help kill about a dozen flies. However, Sunny became the professional Tse-tse fly killer. You'd be surprised, the girl was viscous but a complete expert with her fast reflexes. One of the flies landed on Hanna's tooth as she was laughing. It definitely stopped her laughter but not ours! Two flies got their way into the inside of my glasses as well, gnarly! Today was the first day at Munali High School. We thought both boys and girls in eleventh grade how to use the internet efficiently and how to use search engines. Tomorrow we will teach them how to use Powerpoint. The students are eager to learn something that is so normal to us. They love school and absolutely love learning pretty much anything. It was very refreshing and made all of us very grateful.    
Anyways, dinner is soon so I must head back, until next time!
Embla