Safari today! We woke up early to load the van, and headed to Arusha, an hours drive away to meet our safari driver. We met him and started the drive to the Ngorugoru crater. While driving through these foreign countries I always feel like I’m watching through someone else. Sitting in the car, you drive through people’s lives, seeing hundreds of people and what they are doing. Do those old men sit there every day? Does that woman carry bananas to the market every morning? You just get a glimpse of millions of things. Seeing the poverty, the people, the towns, the animals. This is what makes you feel like you are in Africa. Then, we were safari-ing. Roaming with the wildebeasts, watching the zebras, hippos, gazelles, birds, lions, hyenas, and buffaloes all living together. Just like the TV. Yesterday we summited Kili, today we’re watching giraffes. Well, we didn’t see a giraffe until the drive home, but still. It was crazy, to see all the animals that you only read about, or watch on the nature channel. Here in Africa the Masai tribe lives in the wild as nomads. Their huts dot the landscape, and the cow herders are seen along the roadways, and off in the distance. The men all wear bright red robes, to look like fire to a lion, and they carry long spears. Nowhere else will you find a 6’5” guy with a quarter pound earring, a red robe, and a huge spear. I couldn’t believe this was all happening. On the way back home we stopped at a Masai marketplace. Crazy. Immediately we had 10 people trying to sell wares. Damian tried to get them off his back by speaking Spanish only. The response? “Ah, que tal amigo? Quieres?”. So they spoke Spanish, too. I was temporarily Russian. Thousands of Africans were packed all around, buying, selling, preaching--it was totally crazy. Unfortunately we got no pictures, for the Masai don’t like their pics being taken. We didn’t argue.