The African Animals

 This is Wednesday's news on Thursday because I didn't have any internet last night. We had a good breakfast at the hotel, then left on the bus for hour trip trip to the airport. Amy opened the envelope from Bonnie Bach, which had 1 for each day and in that envelope it said praise praise the LORD and in the envelope was a copy of the song Creation which just happens to be Amy's favorite song. She let us all know that. The entire bus sang that song thanks Bonnie. When we got to the airport and we're all checked in ready to go. The authorities came and told us our plane would not be flying. I guess there were some big mechanical problems on that plane. They found another plane for us. Unfortunately it would only hold thirty people and we were thirty five. Joan offered to have our group stay back and go on another plane. The airport authorities were quick to take us up on that and took our tickets. They didn't come back for a while and we started to get a little worried but they finally came with our  new tickets. We were glad until we realized this plane was going to another town. At that point we were pretty frantic to find that lady.  When we found her she took the tickets back with her took her pen, scratched out that city and hand wrote SER the town we were supposed to be. About then they hurried us out of the airport and walked us over to a tiny 14 passenger prop plane.

The tires on the plan were pretty bald. I asked Sarah to take a picture to show Mark.

 The pilot told us they would drop us off first then go on. It was really neat to be in such a small plane that flew low enough for us to see the country side. The trip took a little more than an hour. When we arrived we found out the 30 passenger plane for the rest of the group didn't have a pilot. They found a pilot a few hours later. As we had time to kill the jeep driver took us out on a game drive. We saw a lions, a leopard, lots of hippos, elephants, giraffes, wildebeest, zebras, baboons, monkeys and lots of birds. We had had a great time and we're able to meet the whole group for a late lunch. That was quite an experience. A local tribe came and sang and dance for us. After our prayer we started to sing how great that art and the staff joined in and sang it their language. After lunch, we left the jeeps to go to our campsite stop it to look at animals all along the way. We had a late dinner then headed to our tents for the night with strict orders not to go outside without a guard. We found out why a few minutes later. We heard lions roaring, hyena's laughing, wildebeest grunting and zebras whistling. the elephants knocked down trees in our yard and something during the night caused a stampede. Below are a few pictures of our day.