Hello Kenya!

We have been welcomed into Kenya with open arms, and even though we don’t have the Tanzanian staff with us, the new staff is still pretty awesome. We left Moyo Hill this morning at 6:30 and we had about a 4 hour drive to the boarder where we had to say our good byes to Whitney and the drivers and we checked out of Tanzania. Then we met our new SAM, Tara, and we walked across the Kenya boarder which was pretty awesome, I never thought I would cross a country boarder on foot.

After we checked into Kenya and got our new home we went to eat lunch, at a lodge, what’s new lol. Then we took a “road”, which was not a road at all it was just random land that we drove on to get to our new camp, which is HUGE. The camp is probably four times larger than our old camp and its amazing. We have four people per banda, the only down side is that the bathroom is not attached so we have to walk to it. Also they have warm water for showers here. We do have rules like camping though, because we can not use the sink water for brushing our teeth and we have to wear long pants and close toed shoes to dinner because of the snakes and scorpions. There are so many animals on camp including reptiles, dogs, baboons, vervet monkeys, and bush babies. I think I am really going to like Kenya and I am thrilled to be here.

Today we went to the market and I got some fancy tire shoes with beading on them which I’m pretty excited about. We also got some ice cream, which will make any day 15 times better. We also woke up to the most incredible view of Mt. Kilimanjaro this morning. There is snow on it and everything and its beautiful. This camp is so much better just for that reason. The bathrooms aren’t attached to the bandas, but the amount of water pressure the showers have makes up for that totally, it was the best shower I have had since home. I went running today and made it about half a mile where I encountered a male baboon so I got scared and went the other way which caused me to run about two miles today, I guess I can’t really be too mad. The food here is also wayyyy better than the food in Tanzania, I love the cooks in Tanzania but the Kenya cooks are amazing. So chapter two is starting off really great plus we leave for expedition on Friday already! Another 5 day trip to a National Park.