Nairobi Wildlife!

The next day we headed to a baby elephant sanctuary to meet and greet with the babies. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is open to the public everyday at 10am only for an hour. You get to watch the little troops of baby elephants get fed by their caretakers who live with them and even sleep in their stalls. They fed them from huge bottles and then the little elephants walked around saying hi to all of the visitors. In places they even shoved up against the ropes so hard that the posts began to tilt. One of them came right up to me tried to grab me with his trunk; he leaned up against the ropes and I got to hug and pat him. He was really, really sweet. By the end of the session all of us got to hug and take pictures with the baby elephants. It was a really cool experience.

Directly after the elephants, we went a few roads over and visited the giraffe sanctuary. This was super cheap to get into because we were East African residents. (Like two us dollars or something) At this place you climb up onto this platform and feed the giraffes that come over. Their favorite food is carrots and the cool thing to do is hold the carrots between your teeth and the giraffe comes over and licks it off your face. It’s basically kissing a giraffe. Their mouth is kinda smelly and their tongues are pretty slimy.

 After that we may have gone to another mall to look around and buy much needed things. Then we headed back to the hotel to hang out before hopping on the night bus to Uganda. One of these nights I was in the hotel lobby on the second floor (it has a central courtyard which is open to the sky) and this humongous rat goes strolling by right in front of me. He looked at me one as if to say, “sup?” (for those of you not down on your rad 90’s lingo, that means “wassup?” which means “what’s up?”) and then just walked down the hallway. I was the only one who saw him, so no one freaked out and I figured as long as he wasn’t in my room it was all good.