Amboseli, Kenya

The mountain peaked out from behind the cloud. Mount Kilimanjaro is a beautiful sight, especially when animals are in the foreground.

I spent the weekend with a group of volunteers from Kirby Wood Baptist Church, Memphis, Tenn. in the Amboseli National Game Park. We saw a LOT of animals. It was the first time to see wild animals in their natural habitat for all of the volunteers. We saw a zillion elephants (my favorite animal).

It's migration season, so there were a lot of zebra and wildebeast in the area. There were also alot of young babies - zeba, wildebeast, elephant.

We watched one group of elephants for at least half an hour or more. This group has elephants of varying ageas. One of the baby elephants was probably about two weeks old. He still didn't know how to use his trunk. He'd try to grab grass like his mother and the others. He'd practically fall down as he pulled and pulled. Then, he'd raise his back leg in impossible angles to scratch himself -- kind of like the flexibility that human babies have. We watched him try to trumpet, but he couldn't keep his trunk from flopping all over the place. It was soooo cute and fun to watch.

The volunteers were truly introduced to life in Africa...bad roads, animals and constant break downs. On the trip to the game park, we broke an axle on one car. The other car ended up with a hole in the gas line due to scraping over the rocky, bumpy road.

We came home yesterday and several came down with a bad case of food poisoning. (Me included.) Most of them leave on the plane tonight, but some are not well enough to travel. Pray for them to recover quickly. Pray that I recover quickly, too.