Since we are here on Hot Husband's working visa (the rest of us all having dependent passes), we can get into the ah-mazing national parks here in Kenya for about 1,000KES. This is the equivalent of around $12.00. Ni-ice. So on Saturday, when Hot Husband's Mt Kenya climbing partner came down with Malaria symptoms and was in bed with a high fever, their trip cancelled... We loaded up the kids and went for a ride in Nairobi National Park. It's only about 20kms away from us, and is a peaceful, safe way to spend an afternoon driving around.
The rains have started here, and the whole night on Friday was spent with power outages, and pounding, pouring rain. The morning dawned and by 10 it was sunny and humid... Perfect animal watching weather. We packed a picnic and got into the park by 11. We saw tons of rhino- unfortunately too far to get a real good shot, but still close enough to really enjoy it. And then these 2 lionesses just sunny themselves on the side of the road. When we started to turn around to leave- one of them had rolled on to her back to give her belly a tan. What a sight! Just made us both giggle like kids watching her. Absolutely stunning and so much fun!
This is one of the things that is so great about living in Nairobi- being able to go out and experience the great outdoors is really very easy. There are a 100 things to do, and being able to do a game drive just in an afternoon (we were done in the game park by 4) is such a blessing- especially when you have little ones with short attention spans, and need just half day outings.
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