A Big Thank You

Hey -- I just wanted to thank you for thinking about me while I was visiting in Kenya.

Most of you know that I've been in the States for about a year. After covering some pretty crazy things as a journalist, I just needed a break and a safe place to hang out. You can't get any safer than southwest Kansas -- ha-ha!

My trip to Kenya was good. It helped me remember how great Africa is, especially when there's no blood shed. The trip went so well because many of you were praying for me and I just wanted to say thanks!

I still don't know when I'll be heading back to Africa or if I'm heading to another destination. After so many years living in Africa and travelling the world, it's kind of crazy to think of doing something else, but who knows? I'm just hanging on to see what the next step is.

Petting Day

My time home in Kenya is coming to a close. I leave for the States on Friday. So today, I took some time for fun. I took a couple of friends to do some "touristy" things around Nairobi.

We started the day at the Giraffe Park -- one of my absolute favorite places. There's a platform built so you are eye level with the giraffes and there's buckets of food. The giraffe walk upto you and you feed them. The giraffe come from the neighboring game park.

The really adventurous, like me, put the pellets in their mouth and allow the giraffe to take it...so, it's a nice juicy, wet giraffe kiss. Oh so cool!!!

A family of warthog came to play below the treehouse like platform.

Then, we rushed over to the Sheldrick Elephant Orphange to watch the babies play. These elephants are all rescued from the wild. They are nursed back to health and taught how to live in the wild. After they turn three years, the elephants are released back into the wild.

There was a brand new baby elephant that was just a couple months old. He arrived last night. He fell in a well and they couldn't fid his family group. It was quite fun watching him playing with the other elephants and trying to "earn" his way into this family grouping of orphans.

After the baby elephants left, a two-month-old Black Rhino came out to play. He was so cute and so small. He didn't even come up to my knee.

Our day ended at the Animal Orphanage. We pet some four-month-old cheetahs.

Then, we pet a hyena (a first for me). It was a good animal kind of day.