Captain Davies

Today I went with Standard 2 (2nd Grade) to Captain Davies. This is a place that is owned by a man whose name is Captain Davies. He's a former MP here in Kenya, but has lots of ties to the US, mainly California around Santa Cruz. Anyway, he has created a Nature/Animal Reserve. It's really a very cool place. The most amazing thing today was I was able to pet a rhino. There are 2 rhino's there, Mike is 14 years old, and Selena is 15 years old. Selena is pregnant and it shows LOL. Anyway, the first thing I thought when I saw both of the Rhino's was that they are so darn cute, and they are HUGE. I mean as tall as a 15hand horse or so. Massive animals, but yet adorable at the same time. They even mixed it up a bit in front of us. The kids all hurried away from the fence, but me being the crazy white woman, just got closer and took pictures. Fun stuff, I tell you.
Then we walked to take a look at some antalope and zebras running around. We couldn't get real close so my pictures probably won't turn out very well. Then we saw a black and white monkey. These guys were really high up in the trees and hopefully my pics of them will turn out.
After that we saw 2 osteridges and then a couple of horses. One looked like it might be Welsh Pony, but I am not sure on that. He looked like one though. The others who knows what they were. The guys attending the horses had no idea, they told me they were horses. LIKE DUH I wasn't born yesterday.
Then it was time for the kids to have lunch. Me I had a soda and called it good. Here in Kenya they have a soda called Krest and it's a bitter lemon flavor, but to me it's not bitter, it's YUMMO


After I got home I was chillin' on my bed when I heard really loud music. Well the choir began practicing outside my room on the grass. OH man they were loud too! Everything they do is loud here. I just wanted to chill and be quiet, but the choir kept it up until after 6pm. UGG


I checked on Spot and his mother today when I got home. I got the cow some fresh water and made sure Spot was ok. Then I checked on the dogs. Both are chained away from the cow and calf. I made sure the dogs had fresh water, and then I hung out with them and talked and petted them for a while. I wish I had access to build a kennel for the dogs. That way they wouldn't need to be chained up. Here in Kenya the dogs are basically wild to a point, and when ever there is a calf born the farmers need to be there to keep the dogs away because the dogs will kill the cow and the calf. Alice said there were 100 dogs hanging around when the calf was born. Not sure if that is true or not. Then Simba, my darling dog, bit the cow twice when the guys were milking the other cows. That's when Simba and Max were sent to Doggie Jail and will be until the cow can get up on her own.  


So that is my day today. Tomorrow I'm off to a wedding that I didn't realize I was going to until today. It's in Eldoret, about an hour and a half from here. We will travel by bus to the church and reception.Weddings are an all day affair here in Kenya. I'm not really looking forward to go to this one. We won't get home until 8pm or so.