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.