The restaurant served lunch on the patio outside and under cover in the evenings. Food was excellent, and the company even better. Some times we were tired and longed for a nap, but we were having too much fun visiting with the other couples. After all, we could nap anytime, but we could only visit with them for a few days! It was so fun to learn what they were doing and see how things were similar or different. The are great people! 
Our first safari drive on the Mara was in the first afternoon. We forded many streams. 
At times we left the road to travel across the flat grassland. And sometimes the road went through some swampy ground. We asked the driver, why he didn't go around the swampy area on the road.
He said that while it may be swampy on the road, it's been packed down and it's safe. If he were to go off to the left or right, it might be much worse and he'd get stuck. I thought how that's like life. If we stay on the Gospel path of life, even though at times it might be swampy and dirty, we can know that others have traveled this path and it is the best and safest path.
The vehicles went out together, and then went their separate ways, but they kept in contact and shared the good sightings and also the flat tires or the getting stuck. Then they came together to share or to help. Isn't that what we do in life, too?
This is Dennis, our great guide and also Elder and Sister R and their wonderful son who brought us stuff in his suitcase as he came over to visit. We had a good time viewing animals and lots and lots of grassland together.
We opted to have a long drive and bring a box breakfast. The bushes in the background constituted our latrine. Again the safety of staying on the path: There, we were fine, but when we went into the bushes, we needed a tick check when we came back out. We brushed off a few crawling critters, but got no bites. Someone asked about Lymes disease here. Elder B. answered, no, here they just have Lemon's disease. It makes you turn yellow and pucker up.
At times we left the road to travel across the flat grassland. And sometimes the road went through some swampy ground. We asked the driver, why he didn't go around the swampy area on the road.He said that while it may be swampy on the road, it's been packed down and it's safe. If he were to go off to the left or right, it might be much worse and he'd get stuck. I thought how that's like life. If we stay on the Gospel path of life, even though at times it might be swampy and dirty, we can know that others have traveled this path and it is the best and safest path.The vehicles went out together, and then went their separate ways, but they kept in contact and shared the good sightings and also the flat tires or the getting stuck. Then they came together to share or to help. Isn't that what we do in life, too?
This is Dennis, our great guide and also Elder and Sister R and their wonderful son who brought us stuff in his suitcase as he came over to visit. We had a good time viewing animals and lots and lots of grassland together.
We opted to have a long drive and bring a box breakfast. The bushes in the background constituted our latrine. Again the safety of staying on the path: There, we were fine, but when we went into the bushes, we needed a tick check when we came back out. We brushed off a few crawling critters, but got no bites. Someone asked about Lymes disease here. Elder B. answered, no, here they just have Lemon's disease. It makes you turn yellow and pucker up.
The landscape is amazing. Wide open skys with thundering cumulus rising past strata. Streams and rivers, flat plains filled with grass and rocky outcroppings with bushes hedging streams. Lone trees sprouted in the middle of nowhere. But they were not the flat topped acacia trees I was expecting. Probably about 60% of the time was spent driving past scenery and no animals, but it was sill impressive.
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