We had a nice easy day for once on our non-vacation. After sleeping in until 8am we had another nice breakfast with a few special guests. Check out the plumage on this guy who was just wandering around the omlette station when we came to breakfast. Beats a pigeon any day.
After breakfast we headed out for a tour of the local woman's organization called "Spinners and Weavers". This is a local outfit which was started in 1977 to try to provide divorced and widowed women a chance to make a living for themselves by spinning wool and weaving shawls, sweaters, rugs and the like. Everything used on the premises was created by hand, from the spinning wheels to all of the plants and bugs used to dye the wool. If you would like more info check out their website at www.spinnersandweavers.org
After the tour we headed back to the safari club for an afternoon of leisure. Joe (a fellow Tauck tour member) and I decided to check out the 9 hole par 3 golf course on the property. Because, how many times can you say that you golfed in Kenya, Africa? The course, to put it bluntly, needed to be bulldozed over and used for additional rooms. But besides the poor tees, fairways, rough and greens it was very playable. We each rented clubs and we were given caddies. On the first tee the caddies asked us if we needed golf balls and then proceeded to sell them to us for $1 a piece. The most exciting part of the course was the troop of baboons who were hanging around the green on one hole.
After the round of golf it was cold beer, dinner and off to the room where a nice roaring fire awaited us. I was able to watch some CNN about all the snow which NJ and NY got, but it really didn't interest me that much. Sorry, but I'm on vacation!!!!!
Until next time.
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