The best weekend ever part 1

Saturday morning after three hours of sleep I woke up excited and ready for a just your usual WEEKEND SAFARI! I went with Harriette's family, her friend Ros and her son. I am so grateful for Harriette letting me tag along all the time I don't think I could be able to do all this stuff, at least not as easily, without her. So we left at 5:30 am for Masai Mara National Park. A driver came to pick us all up in a big Nissan van for the five hour drive. As soon as I climbed into the car I carefully placed my pillow on my lap and fell asleep for the whole drive. I could hear the kids talking loudly, bumping me, throwing up but I just kept my eyes shut and tried to force myself to sleep so I could be well rested for the day ahead. We finally arrived at the gate at around 11:30 and we all had to get out and pay the park enterance fee, it was $60. From there it was a straight shot to the hotel. We were thinking of staying in tents but they were all booked so we ended up at a really nice lodge. At the lodge there were people from all over the world, Spain, the U.K, America, France, China, everywhere. During lunch it started pouring rain. We were all worried that it wouldn't stop and all the animals would be in hiding when we would go out but it soon stopped.

At 3 we were all ready to head out for a late afternoon safari. When you are on the safari you see all the white vans dotting the landscape in little clusters around all the most popular and rare animals. Right away we saw this huge group of elephants walking together. The sky was blue and beautiful and you could just feel the sheer size of the park it felt like it went on forever. There were these baby elephants and they were so cute! Our driver then spotted some lions and as we got closer we could see there were three lions on one rock, two male and a female and a single male sleeping on a rock near by. Lions are so lazy, the driver, Josephat, was saying that they sleep for 20 hours a day. I felt bad, disturbing them as they are sleeping but I got over that in a minute and kept on snapping away. When we were driving away they car got stuck for a little while and as he was spinning really loudly in the mud all the lions woke up and were staring at us. We then saw some ostriches that were chasing each other and I learned that male ostriches are black and the females are gray which seems like the most basic fact ever and I still had no idea. I saw a huge heard of buffalo and I felt like I was in Dances With Wolves when Kevin Costner sees the heard of buffalo that goes on forver for the first time and he was in awe. I was literally thinking about that as I was staring at them. We then drove past a bunch of giraffes. There were two males were necking, where they slam there necks up against each other. Josephat said that they could sometimes do it so hard that they break each others necks! Whoever said giraffes were peaceful animals was a liar. The icing of the cake for the drive was Josephat being the best driver ever and spotting two cheetahs in the middle of grass laying down when no one had even seen them since the morning. We were the only ones there and we just stared at them for a good 15 minutes before anyone even came.They were so beautiful, lean and long with spots all over. It was like seeing all these animals for the first time like all the times I saw them on T.V or in a zoo didn't count. We all went back to the hotel at 6:30 on a safari high.

That evening after dinner there was a Massai dance in the main seating area by the bar. There was bunch of Maasi that worked at the lodge you could tell because their earlobes were stretched out folded up. The dance was good but we had a bad seat we were looking at their backs. They were doing a little skip around the room while chanting and then they did started doing the jumping. With straight legs they jump super, high like 2 feet its amazing. It's like they had springs on the bottom of their feet. After the dance we went to a feeding of Hyenas which was very anticlimactic. Hyenas are so skittish that two little house cats that walked up to them scared them off and they didn't come back. All on all it was a perfect day and I went to bed excited for tomorrow.