If you're like me, you often wake up
in the middle of the night after dreaming about rolling around in the mud with
baby elephants with dung beetles nearby. You may find yourself thinking,
"That could never happen in real life..I"ll never get to see and play
with tiny little baby elephants and see a dung beetle at the same time".
Well my friends, in Nairobi, that dream can be your reality.
Introducing the David
Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage. I've blogged about it before
because I go there whenever we have visitors in Nairobi - But there is no
fulfillment threshold for baby elephants.You just want more and more and more!
When my brother came to visit a couple of weeks ago, a stop at the elephant
orphanage was on the agenda for the first day of activities.
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getting ready to pick them up at the airport - oh boy was I excited. And I had
my little airport pick up sign ready to go! It says NEAT not TAEN. It's a
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On to the elephants!
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awww...they're
so cute. I love the littlest ones that have to wear a blanky
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of the babies are little orphans because of horrible evil poachers that killed
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Oh
this little guy was TINY
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SPOILER! I was about to take a nice couple shot of David and Ali and then some
woman decided to walk right in front of me all incognito with her scarf on her
head. It's like KONY 2012..i'm gonna make her infamous for spoiling this PHOTO! |
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Let's
try that again. Such a lovely couple ;-)
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Another highlight of the
elephant orphanage was when David spotted the DUNG BEETLE!! He was so busy
rolling dung. He traveled like 40 feet in 15 minutes.
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Interesting
enough - they sort of walk on their front legs and push the dung with their
bag legs
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These
guys are pretty small - the dung ball was larger than he was! Dung Ball. lol.
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After the elephants, we went to
lunch at one of my favorite spots. Talisman Restaurant in Karen. I ordered
WRONG.
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ordered fish...this may be the most unappetizing food photography EVER. I'm
good at these. Somehow my fish had lips and teeth....it looks like a gross body
part. It tasted okay - But a little too much work for my taste. Lots of
bones and skin and teeth and lips to dig through. It felt like a game of
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And
a zoomed out unappetizing food photo of the fish
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And
top view of the fish. Under all the tomato stuff, the actual fish was pretty
good.
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Do not let this be a testament
to the entire menu at Talisman. They have really good food. The feta and
coriander samosas could easily be a healthy substitute for heroin.
Okay, that's it for me. Next post I
will do a thorough sarcastic but serious review of the Insanity work out
and anything else that comes to mind.
yucky fish with big lips
ReplyDeletehonestly, that is the grossest thing i have ever seen.
ReplyDeletei can't believe you ate it. i feel like you were being punked.
the teeth....oh my gosh the teeth
I m glad I m reading about your Dung beetle pushing dung and your disgusting fish dinner while I m eating my lunch -ahhhhh so appitizing .. thank you for that - NOT!
ReplyDeleteLol