At the Lake

Spent the night at a friend's house. They live on the lake. We sat on their back porch this morning watching the giraffe, impala and zebra graze while drinking tea. I fell asleep last night to the sounds of hippos mulling around and chatting with each other.

This morning on the drive back to the main road, we stopped to watch a herd of giraffe play. Teenaged boys will be teenagers, no matter what -- they spent the morning wrestling with each other. This consists of leaning on each other; shoving each other with their weight; and head butting each other.

More Safari Photos

Kenya Game Park

Went with a friend to a game park at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. It was the first time I've used my camera in about a year. Here are a few of the photos of animals. I'll post moe tomorrow. Uuuuugh! I'm a bit rusty and my cameras are sooo dirty (no place to have them cleaned in Nairobi).

New Nigerian Helmet Law

NIGERIAN BIKERS WEAR SHELLS TO AVOID LAW
Police in Nigeria have arrested scores of motorcycle taxi riders with dried fruit shells, paint pots or pieces of rubber tyre tied to their heads with string to avoid a new law requiring them to wear helmets. The regulations have caused chaos with motorcyclists complaining helmets are too expensive and some passengers refusing to wear them fearing they will catch skin disease or be put under a black magic spell. The law came into force on January 1. (Reuters)

Flat Stanley in Western Kansas

Flat Stanley came to visit my family in Satanta. We had fun hanging out, but he sure kept us hopping.

Like very resident of this small town, Flat Stanley became an honrary member of the Kiowa Tribe. The town was named after Chief Satanta. A Native American who loved the flat lands and plains.

Flat Stanley was blown away by the wind several times. His little paper legs churned in the 40 mph wind - it was hard to catch up with the olympic sprinter.

We checked out some other local sights. Flat Stanley skipped down the yellow brick road and visited the Land of Oz at Dorothy's House in Liberal. He met the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, Dorothy and even Toto. Flat Stanley was surprised that he was even shorter and smaller than the Munchkins of Oz.

Flat Stanley experienced a winter snow storm. Since Flat Stanley has a lot of energy, he insisted on going outside and playing in the white stuff. We built a "Stanley-sized" snowman before he went back in the envelope to return to a second grade classroom in Missouri.