This post is LONG

Oct. 23, 2019

             So  many things happened to me in the past few days so I will not give all of the details. On  October 20 we left the  luxury  hotel and drove eight hours  on the bumpiest road possible. It was like an eight hour roller coaster that had fallen off its track. We arrived at a hospital and asked our  driver why we had stopped. He said that we were staying there for the night.

           The next day we  drove two hours  to a school on an even more broken roller coaster. We spent two expected hours there and two unexpected hours as-well. Then we drove two more hours to get to the hotel(which was  in  Serengeti National Park). When we arrived my no one was there to greet us (that  is unusual for Africa) mom and I went inside and nobody was at the front desk,  the lights were  out and it was silent. We saw  a man walking in a  balcony so  we  asked  him where  everyone  was. He  said he would call the general manager and we could talk to him. When the general manager arrived he said the hotel was under construction and it had been closed for two weeks!! Now you must understand that we were stranded in the middle of nowhere surrounded by animals that could kill us and the next closest hotel was 110 km away. At first the manager did nothing but tell us  we couldn’t stay there. I was  thinking thanks alot to the manager but then he brought me brownies and was instantly forgiven (by me at least for a while). The manager said he would have somebody drive us to the closest hotel and he would help us change our flight. Two and a half hours later we made it to the hotel it was night time and we were very tired.

       Today  made up for everything because we went on safari!! We saw seven  different prides of lions, three leopards, a  cheetah, many giraffes, many hyenas, a jackal, lots of zebras and wildebeests,  many different antelope, lots of hippos and crocodiles, many buffalo, lots of birds, some ostriches ,and a few elephants. It was amazing!!

It is very  late here and the internet is slow so we will post pictures tomorrow.