Safari...(check!)

There are a few things one traveling to Africa just has to cross off his list while there. A safari is definitely one of them. While I was able to go on one last time I was in Kenya, it was good to be able to go on another one, in a different park, with a better guide.

Last Saturday, Randy Godfried, the maintenance director here, graciously took my roommates and I about 3 hours outside of Nairobi to the Sweetwaters Conservancy. It was a fun and good break from the redundancy of work in the hangar despite the 5am wake up call. The morning was spent driving around the game park looking for the various animals. Randy had been to this park numerous times so he knew quite a few of the animal hang-outs, most of the animal names, and even some of the park rangers. Most of the animals we were looking for we found...except elephants or lions. It was the first time Randy had been there and not seen elephants.

After the game park, we drove up a road (if you can call it that...I am still amazed at the poor condition of roads here) to the base of Mt. Kenya. We were disappointed to find clouds covering nearly all of the mountain...but at least we can say we had been there. Lunch was partaken at the famous Trout Tree Restaurant. The entire restaurant is built in a tree. They raise their own trout below the treehouse dining. After a good meal of fresh trout (which was quite good) and an amusing show from the monkeys attempting to get food from the guests (I would have loved to see an American health inspector at this restaurant) we headed back to Nairobi...a little tired, but thankful to Randy and for another check on our traveling list.

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