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Today was an EARLY morning. We had to meet our driver in the lobby at 6 a.m. to head to Akagera National Park to start our safari for the day! (Today was another break day for Kim, H & I as the girls were joining the boys for soccer camp again.) The trip was supposed to take 3 hours, we got there in under two because the driver was very... um... aggressive and fast. The safari was wonderful and both the driver and the guide kept us informed and entertained on the bumpy path for many, many hours. (We left the hotel at 6 a.m. and didn't return until 5 p.m. I had gone on a safari at Akagera last year when I went and this year we saw a different variety of animals, and some much closer up. I wore the same elephant shirt I wore the year before in hopes that it would bring us good luck and we would get to see an elephant this year again.
We saw many kinds of animals but probably the most eventful part of our trip was when we went to one of the lakes to look for elephants. They told us to look out for them and I explained to the others, "They might be submerged in the water like the one we saw last year was, (we all look at the lake,) but they're hard to miss... big ears... OMIGOSH!!!!!" *Cue elephant charging at us out of nowhere from the trees as our truck screeches on the breaks!* Kim said I almost leaped into her seat! Apparently it was the guard elephant and it was coming to make sure we didn't proceed any further. It won. We took a million pictures and waited awhile, but the elephant refused to move to let us by on the trail so we had to turn around and go a different direction.
After we got back to the hotel, Dean picked me up to print and crop the graduation certificates. When I returned to the hotel, everyone was heading to dinner but considering I had been tired for hours, I decided it was time to blog and to head to bed.
I can't believe tomorrow is the last day of camp already!!
