Renee in Malawi: Elephants!

I finally got to see some animals! We got up early to leave for Mvuu and spent six hours driving. On the way a bee got stuck in our bus for two and half hours! Most of the time he was stuck in the back and didn’t bug me but sometimes he would try to make a break for it which stressed me out a little because he would buzz around me. Eventually, Whitney saved the saved the day and got him to go outside. I don’t think he’s going to find his family though. Sad day.

We finally got to Mvuu around two and we were all famished. Nicolle even broke out the crackers she’s been saving from South Africa. We did get lunch here and we’ve been taken care of. It’s a really nice place. Probably the nicest place we will stay in while we are in Africa. We have nice big, comfortable beds with pillows that don’t deflate when you lay on them, multiple rooms in our chalet, warm water and everything. We even got a card to welcome us with most of our names on it. We actually got two notes. The first one was for Emily, Dekam and Renee. Whitney got left out and Emily got both of her names. The second one had everybody’s names. After checking out our rooms and taking pictures, we looked at the lake just outside our door to see what we could see. We saw some hippos way off in the distance and some monkeys hanging around. Then we went on our driving safari. It was the most fun I’ve had since we’ve been here! Our driver’s name was Henry and he’ll be taking us on our boat safari tomorrow morning. He asked us if there was anything in particular we wanted to see so we told him elephant and zebras. He delivered. We got the best pictures of elephants ever! We also saw some hippos up close, warthogs, antelope type animals, mongeese, a python, Jesus birds, and a few cool trees. We did not see any zebras though, or the lone lion in the park. We will go to more parks and hopefully see zebras and giraffes. At one point after the sunset, Henry stopped the jeep and told us we were walking back to camp and that it would be an adventure. We all got a little excited and then he told us it was a joke. It’s a good thing we didn’t walk because it got dark and the hippos were out.