Our new view.
After an interesting breakfast which I did not eat but two bites of, we were off on our days adventures.
Now note- Don’t drink the juice. I’m telling you now. In Addis, it comes in a carton and then it was fine. But here it was fresh squeezed pineapple juice- if you drink it you’ll regret it like I did for 12 hours of pure HELL. Luckily we had medicine for that too.....
We were supposed to visit the fish market that day, but after I drank the juice- I begged not to go to anything too smelly. Luckily that day it was too smelly... Yep, that is what they told up when we got there. It smells too bad today to go there. Fine with me.
Instead watched them feed the African storks. The very big, hungry storks.
Then we fed the monkeys. I loved feeding them. It was amazing to see them in their habitat.
The monkey even sat on Gretchen’s (our travel mates) shoulder.
Then we took the Hippo boat ride. (Oh wait, it isn’t Disneyland. They are real, people eating hippos.)
Rephrased= they we took a boat to see the Hippos. This was the highlight of the trip. I could have stayed out there for days (on a cabin cruised) not a wood boat. I love being on the water anytime but it didn’t hurt that it was a beautiful, calm, sunny day.
And we rode in a wood boat that had to be bailed out so it didn’t sink.
Well, I sure it wouldn’t sink quickly but we would have gotten a whole lot wetter on our hour long journey than we did if it hadn’t been for this kid bailing water from the boat the whole time. Safe right? Again- never in America....
They made us wear life jackets just to be safe. Not sure if the hippos attacked that would have helped....
This is one of the few fisherman we saw. Yes, his boat is made of reeds tied together. Makes our boat look safe.
Elliott enjoyed it too.
This reads “Love Awassa” in Amharic. I do LOVE AWASSA.
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