addendum to safari blog

Two other funny things to note from that part of the trip:

1. Mer was approached by one of the Masaai guys on the last night who offered 10 cows for her "sister" Jessie's hand in marriage. Mer responded at least 20 but that was too much and Jessie wasn't feelin living in the bush and cooking and cleaning for her husband. The clincher was Jessie was informed that on her wedding day, she would be in the house preparing for the marriage while the ceremonies and celebrations were going on outside. Shoot.

2. The night we sat outside late playing cards and chatting with the security guard, we chatted about how the security guard was there to keep elephants and lions out of the hotel grounds. Ten minutes after we had gone to our room, we heard some odd animal sounds. Five minutes later, Phillip, the security guard, came knocking on our door to tell us we had just missed 5 lions who roamed into sight and gave a lot of animals a scare (hense the strange cries we had heard). Though we missed seeing those lions (we only saw one sleeping from afar of one of our safari drives), we fell asleep hearing them roar outside our door. Pretty cool!