Pre Summit Conference Safari

One of the great things about traveling with LLI is the world class once in a lifetime experiences. My mom and I went to a safari lodge in the bush and saw lions, cheetahs, elephants, wildebeast, antelope, giraffes, rhinos, jackals, baboons, civets, warthogs, zebra, and tons of birds. we met awesome couples from Lebanon and Australia. we got close to them and our ranger, Lara. One night, my mom asked for extra firewood for our room. during the night, the logs caught fire and our room filled with smoke. my mom woke up just in time and got us out, and she was put on oxygen. They gave us a free seven day week any time we wanted at the lodge :) on the last day, we were on our drink stop for the morning and Lara was telling us about a game that alot of south africans play in the bush when they are bored. You take the antelope poop, which look alot like rabbit or deer poop, and you put one in your mouth and thw person who can spit it the farthest wins. My mom was really fast to get in line to try it. She made me do it, too. It didn't really taste like anything, but my tounge was scratchy for the next few hours. We were looking at three male lions one day, and they had killed a wildebeast and were eating it. one had blood all over his mane thing from eating. we could hear the other lion chewing the wildebeast and its skin ripping. Lara told us about how lion's tounges are so rough that they can literally lick the skin off of other animals. Earlier that morning, we saw three lion cubs playing on some rock piles. they were pushing each other over and running and falling and it was soo cute. for meals, we ate only breakfast and dinner. it was good though because the food was AWESOME and really filling. we ate on the top of a mountain for breakfast, and a different place each night for dinner. in our rooms, they had outdoor showers. they were my favorite part about the rooms. at night and in the morning it gets very cold. so morning and night are great times to take a hot shower outside. you have to watch for elephants though, because during the winter they tend to drink water from the plunge pools that are only about twenty feet away from the showers.africa is awesome. i can't wait to come back for another week, because this timew i think we are going to bring my brother bo - See ya soon, Hailey Stevens