lions and tigers and bears

ok, so none of those things.

But on my drive through the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater area, I saw a LOT of giraffes, elephants, dikdiks, impalas, other deer-looking thingees (I'm not that romantic about safaris - in all honestly, most of the time you just see a bunch of deer), a few hippos, a lone hyena, a TON of zebras, wildebeest and other cow looking things I'm not sure of (OK, lets just say most of a safari is looking at deer and cows. Hey! I should start up a 'Wisconsin-safari' tour company and clean up on all these wazungu suckers shelling out big bucks to come to TZ!)

The sheer number of these deer/cow lookalikes will remove any remaining guilt I have when I taste, which I am now determined to do, some of this 'bush meat'. Hear Zebra meat is tasty too. Oh, in addition to all the (tasty looking) animals, I saw some Maasai people herding ther cattle/sheep through the parks (in Mwanza all they do is guard work, other Tanzanians are scared of Maasai). It was interesting to see, but I had no touristy desire to take countless photos around their huts (nor any intension of eating them, for that matter).

So now i'm at a hotel in Arusha during the first day of our group AMREF meeting. And if there's any way I can sum up how fantastic this day has been, it's with the following two words:

HOT SHOWER.