Lee & Elder Olsen at the giraffe sanctuary...

Wart hogs are prehistoric-looking creatures...

Baby elephants, on the other hand, are adorable and funny.

Lee couldn't take his eyes off the elephants.  These Elephants have been orphaned because of poaching.  They are kept safe until they are about three years old and then re-introduced into the wild.

Women wear the most unique hair styles here...They are very creative.  This young women was beautiful.

After they are fed huge bottles of milk, these elephants play a while and then go back into the bush and another group comes out to be fed.  They are funny...flappy ears and playful trunks.

Now we are at the Nairobi Game Park.  It covers a huge area and the animals live in the wild.  They are not fed so they hunt and forage for themselves.

Vultures in the treetops.

Zebras were everywhere.

Not sure what this was called, but it was very large and there were many of them.

This is a water buffalo and he was standing right next to the road.

Ostrich eggs hold the equivalent of two dozen chicken eggs.

There were many giraffes....beautiful!

Helloooooo!

There was a family of baboons next to the road....funny to watch.

Tatonka Lee with a collection of skulls..turtle, zebra, antelope, gazelle, rhino, water buffalo, giraffe, etc.

Lee was seized by a hippo and it hurt a lot...

This was one of the few places you are encouraged to get out of your car.  We went for a short hike with a guide who carried a rifle.  He told us this crocodile opens his mouth to cool his body. 

This baby crocodile was a ways down the river bank from the grown one.

Amazing...

Pictures do not do justice, but imagine this huge horizon with this giraffe standing on top of the hill...it was beautiful.

It's hard to see, but there were three male lions sleeping about 20' from the road.

This is a real elephant but it's not alive...phew!  He is at the Nairobi Museum which is just about five miles from our flat.  How would you like to carry those tusks around all day?  No wonder he died.

There were beautiful stained glass windows and tiled walkways in the entry way and through the gardens.

This was a beautiful display of all kinds of guords...all shapes and sizes and some had been painted or carved.

Another view of the guord sculpture.

One of the best parts of our visit to the museum was seeing all the school children.  Each school has their own uniforms.

People in Naivasha are very cautious when it comes to swimming in the lake because there are many hippos and they say they will "chomp" you!  Not eat you...just chomp you and then spit you out!

This zebra looks like he is laughing or has something to say...

This is a rare animal found only in one country in Africa.  It looks like a combination of several different animals.

This is a shot of an Acasia Tree.  It is very common in Africa and the giraffes love to eat the leaves.  You can see the long thorns that grow all over the branches, making it tricky to get to the leaves.

Here is another group of school children.  There must have been 500 children at the museum that Saturday but they were all very well behaved.  Each group had a few adults with them.  They walked in lines with their hand on the shoulder of the person in front of them.  Children who are lucky enough to go to school attend six days a week.

This is a group of older children making their way down to the snake exhibit.

It's hard to see, but this walkway was made from mosaic tiles.  It was beautiful.

We went to Ilima, which is in the hills about two hours from Nairobi.  These children heard the truck coming and ran to meet us.  We arrived at 10:00 a.m. and left at 1:30 p.m. and they were with me all that time.  We sang, hiked around and played games.  Their treasures were bottle caps which they used to play a game similar to jacks.  Here we are sharing some carrots.  The baby was held by his sister the entire time.  She carried him on her back, her hip, and in front...just like he was part of her body.  All he had on was this little t-shirt. 

Here are two mamas carrying their little ones on their backs.  They use large scarves called kangas to tie the children on.  They tie them differently depending on how old the children are so that their heads and necks will be supported.

This little girl is losing the sight in her left eye.  None of these children go to school because their families can't pay the school fees.  They get up in the morning and play all day on their own.  They know to go home when it starts to get dark.  They could count to 100 and they can say their ABC's.

This little girl's name is Purity and her brother's name is Barack.  There are three other children at home.  We visited their home a few months ago when the new baby was born.  The mama wasn't home because the baby was sick and she had taken her to the doctor.  The father was working on a plow and wouldn't talk to us.

Before we left, the two older girls did a full inspection on me.  They started at my hands and lifted my sleeves to see if I was white all the way up.  They were confused because I was wearing black nylons and they couldn't figure out why part of me was white and part was black.  There was a long discussion in Kikumba about my legs.  They tried to braid my hair but it was too short.  They went all over my face and ears talking the whole time.  I wish I could understand what they were saying.  It was a very serious conversation.   I'm sure they had a lot to tell their families when they went back home.  It was a delightful morning and I hope we can go back soon.  Next time I will take some bottle caps as a gift.

Here are two of the amazing missionaries who serve in the hills.  They get lots of exercise walking up and down the hills.

Here we are inspecting their bottle cap collection...lining them up according to color.

Little Purity can do anything while carrying her brother.  Here she is with him on her back while she is playing with the bottle caps.  By the time she is old enough to have a child of her own, she will know all about how to be a mama.  It's hard to know how old they are but I think Purity is between 6-8 years old.

Perfect balance!  It is amazing to see the different things people carry on their heads.

Our driver took us for a ride through Mwanza.  This picture was taken from up on some boulders.

Boulders...Boulders...Everywhere.

Who put the spotlight on my nose?   Cruel.

We just said "hello" and this little boy took off running..."save me!"

Here's Dad in his Boundary Waters hat...in Mwanza, TZ.

Here is one of the houses that is built on a boulder...firm foundation.

Mwanza is like City of the Rocks only on a grander scale.

This was a friendly little boy who scrambled up from his house to where we were taking pictures.

Who are those two movie stars?  President and Sister Broadbent!

There were some beautiful homes nestled among the boulders.

This was the middle-sized billy goat...

There is such a variety of flowers in Mwanza.  The Broadbents said it reminds them of Hawaii.

These colorful lizards were everywhere...sunning themselves on the boulders.

Down this road to the boardwalk and out to the lake...

We were told that very few people swim in Lake Victoria because of a bacteria in the water.  So sad.

This is a big supply of charcoal which is one of the main sources of cooking fuel.

Good place to be a cow or goat.

Rice is a big crop in Mwanza.  These people have dried the rice and now they are packaging it.

Fishing is another big industry in Mwanza.

This is the baptism font in back of the Mwanza chapel.