Tarangiere

It was our first real day of safari. We entered the park excited by the first animal we saw (again a monkey) only to discover the vast array of animals throughout the park with little interaction with other tourists. The highlights include elephants feet from our car, giraffes walking nearby and our first of many zebras.

Arusha

Walk in the rainforest
     We went for a walk in the rainforest to see monkeys and to get some fresh air. We saw colobus monkeys. Colobus monkeys have a big long white tail. We also saw blue monkeys. They didn’t seem to blue to me. They weren’t very scared of us. The walk was nice. It was so cool to see the colobus monkeys!

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Finally off to Tanzania

Arrived two hours before our flight only to find that Egyptair had "lost" our seats. So after some hurried conversations in arabic (by our guide, we're not that good at speaking the language yet) we got bumped up to Business Class. However no one got to enjoy the perks due to sick and tired children. The footrest also proved to be a problem with the Wells men's legs being too short to stretch out and lie down. Arrived at Aremeru Lodge, a beautiful, lush oasis.

Face to face with Tut

Today we went to the Cairo Museum and saw king Tut's golden coffin and the golden burial mask. The coffin was 120 kilagrams of gold which is worth about 4 million in gold alone. Through out the museum we learned about the different dynasties and kings, through the statues. The inside of the sarcophagus's had very intricate drawings. Our family has learned thank you, please, hello and goodbye in arabic. overall cairo has been a great expirence and definitley more facinating in real life.

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First day in Cairo

 Riding off into the desert after trading Mom and Emma for a camel apiece

                                                   Ugly creatures and not the friendliest

Amazing that these were built 5,000 years ago. Dad wants a tomb like that. More to follow

Cairo

We arrived at Cairo yesterday evening after 26 hours in transit

We are off on our family adventure!

We fly out of Seattle very early tomorrow so heading there today.  We have packed enough medications, sunscreen and bug juice to sink a ship!  Chris will celebrate his July 1 birthday on the plane. In 36 hours, we will have travelled to New York, London and final destination Cairo, Egypt.  We will spend a few days there to get over our jetlag and do a little sightseeing. Stay posted for those details.  Hannah is determined to ride a camel.