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On The Fourth Day of Kenya, Maddy said to me, "Elephants! Hippos! Monkeys!"

Maddy in front of the hippo area.
 The latest from Aaron:


Wow today was amazing!!!  Kwembekenya is up in the mountains....I felt like I was at the Grand Mesa....it was awesome.  We saw the clinic that was recently built....we would think it was a dump in America but there it is really amazing!   We then went to the school.  There was another school from another community visiting and some of those kids were actually scared of us b/c they hadn't seen a white person before.  The kids from Kwembekenya were very friendly b/c they are use to whites from 410 missions in the past.  Brent Meredith was called "Fat Ghost"   it was hilarious...the kids were brutally honest calling glenn and chuck fat to!  Too funny.

This is a video of the clinic we saw and the area we were in.
http://www.410bridge.org/change-kenya/where-we-serve/kwambekenya/



We got back a little early, so instead of just sitting in our room we went to the lake and did a Hippo tour for only 25 dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It was very impressive.  We then parked and they walked us through an area with zebra, impalas, wildebeest, gazelles, water bucks, and giraffes.  I couldn't believe how close we were to some of them.  I have pics.

While Aaron was doing his hippo tour, Maddy was on a mission to find some hippos as well. We met up with the Embry family in Ft. Worth, had lunch at Subway, and then went to the Ft. Worth Zoo. Before we even got to the zoo, Maddy was talking about the hippos. She has just been obsessed with hippos lately. It is funny. Anyway, after several times getting lost, we finally found our way to the hippo area.
Embry cousins and Maddy at the Zebra area.
Maddy was super fascinated by this turtle chasing the fish.
She also loves the elephants. She kept making a trunk with her arm and then she tried to tell Rachel about what the Elephants were doing. It came out something like, "Elephants! Right there! Elephants!.. jibber jabber jibber... Elephants! Right there! Elephants. ..Jibber jibber...Elephants!" Too cute.
 Maddy didn't make it to the Australian animals that we did in the end. She was wiped out. We all had a great time. Especially the kids. I'm really glad we got to go and it was also neat that we got to see a super safe, toned down version of what Aaron had just seen in Kenya. Kind of made it feel not so many thousands of miles away.

Comments

bee said…
How FUN!!!! Now Maddy can relate to Dada's hippo hunting and his trip to Kenya and all the animals there.
March 15, 2011 at 10:46 AM
Jennifer said…
Ft Worth zoo is awesome! I took Abriella when I was pregnant with Colby. It was our little mommy-daughter outing prior to baby brother's arrival. One of the best zoos out there!
March 15, 2011 at 1:30 PM
Drs Meyer said…
Love the pictures!!!! keep up the posting...the zoo sounds great!
March 15, 2011 at 8:15 PM
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