Day 14 "Its raining bugs...."

We arrived in Mombasa after a 14 hour train ride that unfortunatley most could not get much sleep on. However, the morning breakfast was good despite when they turned the fans on (of course no AC on the train) bugs rained down from the fans that must have died on them. It was hilarious watching Laura, Faria, Amanda, Julie, Duncan and Kuria pick bugs out of their butter, soup and drinks! It looked a lot like they had peppered their food : )

Mombasa was georgous....Im pretty sure we all agreed that we could stay here the rest of the trip and be content!!! We visited fort Jesus, the marine park (some of us including me went snorkling), shopping and then back to the train to get home!!!

On the way back Amanda, Rachel and I had a bunk mate, a 20 year old woman that lived in Melini and went to college in Nairobi! Dinner was good once again but after a 4 am false wake up (we were suppose to get off at an earlier stop, Emali, but we were delayed due to an oil spill on the tracks) Unfortunatley, we had to all eat breakfast before they told us it would be another 4 hours till our destination! Also, we were locked out of our sleeping car because our room mate thought we were gone : (

But finally after a long wait we got off at Emali and the cars were waiting for us (since 530am) to take us to Amboseli National Reserve! After a 1.5 hour drive full of tired, hot, sticky (no showers for 2 days) group we were excited to see all the animals in the reserve! We saw several herds of elephants (many babies as well), zebras, wildebeast, ostriches, gizelles, and birds galore!!! And this was just on our way to our hotel called Serena Lodge...the same place that Lance and Julie brought me back in the day when I was 3 weeks old! It was beautiful we had lunch that was amazing.

Then we went to a Masai Village with Duncan, Michael, Naomi, Kuria, Lance, Julie, Josiah, Amanda, Laura, Rachel, and I! It was so enlightnening to see how they live day to day. They taught us a traditional Masai dance (even though they can jump much higher than the rest of us)! Also, they showed us how they medically treat their community. They use certain sticks or branches some soaked in boiling water others ground up and put in milk and drunk. One was said to help the Masai man solve all ten problems in one night (we learned that due to the polygamist rituals men can have up to 10 wives which they jokingly call problems...so we got what that medicine does : ) Then we were shown into their huts that they live in and were able to visit with their community! Lastly, they allowed us to purchase some beautiful work that they had done! It was so much fun despite a little rain! We then returned to the hotel! But on our way we heard there was a lion siting so we went to go see there were more than 10 lionesses preparing to hunt! However, rules are to be out of the park before 7pm so we had to get back and did not get to see the hunt :(

We had a wonderful dinner better than most 5 star restaurants that I have been at! And shortly after much fun and talk we headed to bed!!! Excited for the early morning safari and visit to Muchakos orphanage!!!

Then, we went into

Well we are all safe and sound and I will update as soon as I can!!!