More catching up...

April 1
Happy April Fools! The girls started off the day by locking the boys in their room so they would be late to breakfast. It didn’t actually work out the way we planned because one of the members on cook crew unlocked the door and the boys came and locked us in our rooms instead. Luckily we were freed and made it to breakfast on time. So in Kenya April Fools is not as big of a thing as it is in the US. This might explain why the staff was really confused by our lack of excitement when a staff member told us that 2 lionesses had just killed a waterbuck by the side of the road and that they would take us to go see them if we wanted to. So all the students skeptically got into the cars and to go and see the “lions”. You can imagine how surprised we were when there actually were two lionesses eating a waterbuck just around the corner from our campsite!

We ended the day going to a lodge in the park. The food was really good and it was nice to have dome R&R…until it started pouring on us while we were in the pool. Oh well! At least the rainy season has begun:)

April 2
Today we packed up and headed back to NPS. We decided to take the scenic route back to Nairobi. It included a beautiful climb out of the valley. While we were driving up the edge of the valley/cliff there were some pretty neat rock paintings on the rock wall…not much else went on for the rest of the day.

April 3
Today was another Non-Program day! We decided to take it easy and go to an ostrich farm to enjoy some ostrich burgers and ride some ostriches. I did manage to choke down half of the burger but couldn’t bring myself to ride the ostrich because it looked so sad and scared.

April 4
Today we packed up and left NPS and headed back home to KBC. It was nice to see Kili again and run around the trail again (even though it’s a lot smaller than the one at NPS). The rest of the day we spent relaxing because DR intro starts tomorrow! I hope I get a good one:)