First of all, my apologies for my failure to blog for the last week and a half. I have been so busy doing so many amazing things. So for starters, I brought in my New Year in the most American way ever. I went to the mall and had lunch in the food court, yogurt from a place very similar to Yoforia, played put-put golf and then went to the movies to see “New Year's”. Angela decided to go out with her friends, but I stayed in and reflected on 2011 and prepared for 2012. It is sure to be a good year.

Me and Angela's cousin, Ruth, eating at the food court in the Village Market

I spent the next few days bonding with Angela's family and working at the Center in Rongai. I stopped taking pictures during this time because it seemed my life in Kenya was becoming routine. Nothing extraordinary to snap anymore. It felt good to be free from the constant fascination that comes with being a tourist.

Unfortunately, I got sick. I, again, thought I had malaria and went to the clinic to discover that I didn't have malaria...but at least this time I was right in that I was sick. I had a really bad throat infection and that took me out of the game for a while. I laid around the house and watched bootlegged movie after bootlegged movie. As my mind was beginning to turn to mush, I started to feel better. I went back to the center to work for a couple of days before it was time to say goodbye. It wasn't until my last day that I finally took a picture with the sign outside of the center. Odd...

On my last day in Niarobi Angela decided to take me to the giraffe center where I was able to feed and make out with the giraffes. They are beautiful and gentle beast.

Yesterday morning I woke up and was off to my first day of a REAL SAFARI through Masai Mara. Look at what I saw!

Simba and Nala. I have a long interesting story to tell about them....

2. Babar!

The pride is on the move!

The Masai people are quite beautiful. My favorite Kenyan tribe by far.

They showed me how to start a fire.

We took a boat ride on lake Nivasha to see some hippos. This is the group of students from Wagner college that I joined for the safari. They are very nice people. Wagner is a liberal arts school and most of them are drama and musical theater majors. That has made for lots of song in the car.

We saw this zebra that had been eaten by a lion. Wild dogs, jackals, were eating it when we showed up, but then they saw us and ran away

Hippos!

A display of masculinity. My horns are bigger than your horns!

Buffalo were everywhere! Actually, these pictures don't even show an inkling of the amazing pics I have and the amazing things I saw. I am racing with the internet clock so I just uploaded whatever came up first. Check me out on facebook for the carefully selected photos.

Tomorrow will be my last day in Nairobi and I will be home soon.