Going back to Cali

posted by Michelle
4:41 pm

Edward and I are chillin' at the Kensington Office here in Nairobi. Since a lot of visitors have time to kill waiting for their flights out, Kensington Tours has a nice little place where you can hang out. We have our own room with a big queen size bed if we want to take a little cat nap before our flight, a big couch, books and magazines, TV and a computer with free internet. It's like our own little house in Kenya! Anyway, this tour company has been really really great, so if any of you are interested in a private adventure tour look them up! Seriously. I've been very impressed. They have tours in South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. There Brazil and Argentina tour looks really cool.

So the last couple of days have been cool. We stayed at a "luxury" tented camp in the Masai Mara, which is the most northern part of the Serengetti. It's cool because you get to be in a tent and "be one with nature" but still have a hot shower, toilet, queen size bed inside your tent. Last night we could hear the baboons hooting and hollering in the tree right next to our tent. Ahhh...mother nature! The highlight of Africa has definitely been our hot air ballon ride over the Masai Mara. We took off over the plains at sun rise and saw the migrating Wildebeast below. It was crazy. There are thousands and thousands of them, and from the balloon they look like a bunch of ants swarming over the fields. Words and pictures just can not describe how amazing it was. After touchdown, we had a delicious champange breakfast right in the middle of the Masai Mara. Awesome!! Our balloon pilot was a quirky Korean dude, Kim. He filmed our ballon ride and, of course, sold it for a pricey $30! At first, Edward and I said we certianly don't need to buy that, but then we watched the preview of the video that Kim had playing on his laptop. SOLD!!! I'll post a clip of the video when we get home. It wasn't even the beautiful scenery or exciting balloon ride that changed our mind on the purchase. It was this random other passenger on the balloon. You just gotta see it!

Well we're heading out to this famous restaurant in Nairobi called Carnivore. Apparently they serve game meat there. I don't know how I feel about eating endangered species. We'll see. I'll let you know how it goes.

After that, 21 hours of flying and 8 hours of sitting in the Amsterdam airport. Oh boy.