Friday, June 11,2010- Arusha Day 2

We woke up super early thanks to the chickens that stayed in our mud hut and the dogs that were locked in some box barking all morning. We got up, packed, and got ready to start our 2 day 1 night safari. We drove down to the first grocery store, like. Legit grocery store since I have gotten here and we bought all of our food for the next two days. I grabbed my staple peanut butter and jelly with raisin bread and some crackers and candy to keep myself sane while in a car for two days. I found some iced tea too which was amazing.

We then hopped in the vehicles and got ready to leave. The six of us were in one car and the other arusha people had another car that we pretty much followed the whole time.

This was the first time we met Saba, our safari driver. Saba also means seven in Swahili, just in case you were interested. We start our super long drive, about 3 hours, and we finally get to the national animal park and we drive around and the animal adventure finally begins! We saw pretty much everything you can think of on Friday. Tons of baboons, elephants everywhere, giraffes right next to our car, and wildabeasts and buffalo galore. We stopped at this hot springs in the middle of the national park and got out to take pictures. Marnee got out and threw her hands into the water and scalded her hands because she wasn't listening to know that we were at a HOT springs. We got back in the car and would stand up in the car with the open roof and we just had a good time taking 9 hours to get through a huge animal park. Saba ended up falling in love with me, or so he said after he said " you are very beautiful" and would totally molest my leg before I smacked him off me and told him I had a husband. He's super nice but me and my fake husband have a bond.

We made it to a hostel that Marnee and I had the most amazing experience at. After dinner were we had the most amazing chipsi mayai of my life with a beer, we came back to this hostel where we all shared single bedrooms and Saba of course thought it would be funny to offer to stay with me in my room. Thankfully I had marnee with me so we picked our room which had the name "Australia" on the door, each or was a region of the planet, including Mars.

Our room looked like a normal hostel room minus the malaria nets we so desperately needed. The bathroom had a cho and shower in the same place and smelled so awful we decided to just skip the shower and pee with the door open. We had cockroaches and grasshoppers as guests in our room, not to mention the crickets chirping and the Sean Paul dance party outside our one window and the world cup games around the back of our room. Marnee and I laughed for literally 30 minutes before we went to bed.