Is that the same cow?

Yesterday (Monday), Siddo took me on an adventure. We left Ouga and headed north. There's a large lake on the north side of Ouga, I had never seen it before yesterday. We traveled about 30 minutes north on the moto, so my lower extremities had been shaken to within an inch of their life. We were heading to a place with stone carvings, a place where loads of artist come from around the world to just make some sculptures for this museum/sculpture garden/person's farm.

On our way in we were greeted by a small heard of cattle that took up the whole road and were moving in the opposite direction. So on our small moto we sat while all the cows passed by us, there was a last minute mounting attempt off our starboard side (not trying to mount us thankfully but I'm still glad i had my helmet on.

We got to the place, I don't know what I was expecting but I'm close to giving up expecting anything. Pretty much there are loads of sculptures and you tour yourself around to look at them all. Along the way you dodge cows, chickens and goats. First thing we came to was a large stone banana. Very nice, then there were loads of carved faces in the rocks, then we turned down a path that went to Ihavenoideawhere. So as we guessed our way through the exhibit we came across a large carved sea turtle, so i took a moment to do my rendition of "Finding Nemo".

So we left sculpture place, after running into our friend the white cow one more time. On our way out we passed back through the heard of cows and i spotted small hill, so we went to climb it. From on that hill I saw some big rocks and junk and body of water. And what do we do when we see large rocks? That's right we climb them. So after i climbed over these large rocks to get on top of the biggest one, I realized there was a much easier way to get up there that didn't involve more than walking, but whatever it was fun for me. On top of the largest rock there was about a 30 or so foot drop down into some water. I checked the depth by tossing a large rock into the water. It's deep enough I thought. "Siddo I wanna jump" he convinced me not to by saying things like "No, no, you shouldn't". Very convincing Siddo I didn't get to jump, I'm tired of things like the threat of disease stopping me from having fun, so what if I'd get some crazy large worm in the bottom of my foot we could take it out. Any way after scaring and being scared by some unreasonably large birds we left.

So then it was off to the Zoo/collection of animals at the president's house. If you're a PETA person I don't recommend going you will only find fault. However if you are a person who likes to look at animals very closely and understand that rich people in Africa have loads of money and often buy themselves some animals, I recommend going.

There were giraffes, one Zebra, some cow/buffalo things from South Africa, I have no idea the best I could do was get the french name for stuff then immediately forget that because a camel or something would come out of no where and scare me. I saw a giraffe, a zebra, an animal with horns, another animal with horns that was shy, a frick'n tiger that was about 2 feet away from me, some baboons, a 7 meter python, large tortus having sex, loudly and for an impressive amount of time in the African heat, saw some small elephants, and got to feed a gigantic hippopotamus. It was a full day. Hippos are fricking scary epically when you've got it's hand by it's mouth which could easily fit half of you inside it. Oh it was fun, but the lions wouldn't come out into the heat of the day, smart lion.

I know what you're thinking, must have been crowed, probably couldn't get to the glass to see anything good. Oh no, there was a grand total of 5 of us taking this tour and the only thing between me and that tiger was a small fence, same goes for the hippo, they python, baboons, crocodiles, and hiding lions. I got to scratch a hyena, and feed one of those horned animals not to mention the hippo, that's right, he was a hungry hungry hippo. All in all a good outing.

Later I went to my friend Azedeen's house to work on some English with him. Then he took me to this restaurant, one of the nicest restaurants I've ever been in. It is called Godavan, it has four themed rooms and off the chain food and through the roof prices. Turns out the manager is one of the guys that played in the tennis tournament last week. Fun times. Well that's an up date.

Peace

Ben