We’re on our second weekend with Matt out of town and to make it even longer the kids had a teacher in service day on Friday. So to combat the “we’re going to all kill each other if we don’t get out” syndrome, we joined the Fischer family on an outing to Mkuru Camel Safaris. One of the nice things about going here was the proximity to Arusha. Their camp is located just on the other side of Mt. Meru and took us less than an hour and a half to get there. There are several ways that you can arrange the camel safari, but since I was travelling solo and we had a combined 6 kids that were 8-3 years old, we went for camel-lite and just did day a day trip with the camels to Baboon Cave (rather than a trek in to a camp in the bush). I think this was enough of a starter trip and all the kids said they’d happily go back again. I will admit that getting on the camel and then when the camels have to stand up and then get back down it’s a little disconcerting. Ashlyn was not a fan, but was an amazing trooper and walked the whole distance that we rode the camels. She tried for a short stint on the way back, but didn’t last long….of course the next day she was saying that she was ready to try again, so I think it just took her a little while to warm up the idea. Maybe next time, when we go with Matt, we can be a little more adventurous.
Two quick videos to try and give you a feel for what it was like when the camels stood up and then went back down. Tierney (ever the good big sister) can be heard telling her scared sister “See Ashy, it’s okay”
On day two we went for a walk around the camp. Patrick thought it would be a good idea to *challenge* the kids to find 24 bones total (which the big kids quickly figured meant 4 bones each). Well, I think we ended up closed to 24 bones each. The maasai children were probably wondering why we were collecting all the cow bones, but were helpful and kept adding to our collection as well.
Avalon and Ashlyn even tried to show the kids how to play tic tac toe.
When your parents cut you off from collecting more bones, what is there to do except play with cow poop?
The gang: Avalon, Tierney, Anderson, Siri, Ashlyn, and Magnus (Isn’t that such a great sounding group of kid names?)
The bone collection back at camp. They made their own animal...I can’t remember the name, but it had cow, bird, and camel bones.
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