Before coming to Africa, I tried to rationalize things. I am here during low season, but it is so expensive to go during high season, I took a gamble. I thought, even if I see no animals, I will still be in Africa, so it will be ok. Having seen all of the animals that I have, it seems like a crazy worry. We saw wildebeast as far as the eye can see, and dozen of zebra at a time. I saw so many elephants! On my last day of safari, on our way out of the last park, we saw three elephants aruond an elephant that had died during the night. It was so sad. They touched the dead one with their trunks, and tried and tried to push the fallen one up. The day before, I saw elephants playing in the mud- rolling around in it. About five of them, splashing around like a family at a waterpark. As I was leaving the safari part of my trip, I thought about how I have never seen animals as happy or sad or alive as I had in the past two weeks. The zoo will never be the same. Speaking of the zoo, I told our Kenyan tour guide, Amos, about how at the zoo in Columbus they have a new baby elephant and it is on display for two hours a day and people wait in very long lines, sometimes more than an hour, to see it. He made me tell him the story three times because he thought it was so absurd that he must have heard me wrong. We probably saw and average of five babies a day here. Why did I worry? Hakuna Matata!
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