February 24th.
Another tardy post. Time has been going by very fast on our adventure. We spend a lot of time on the road doing either safari, or driving between parks/lodges. Anyway, I type tonight with the obligatory delayed posting from the SOPA lodge in the Serengeti National park in Tanzania. I aploogize for the long time between what will be many posts, as they chard ridiculous rates as I have said before.

We didn't see much today other than a sleeping leopard at a great distance, and a hyena so fat his belly nearly dragged on the ground. The Serengeti however is really an impressive isolated place to be. The view this evening as the sun set was nothing short of spectacular.

The previous two nights were at the Sopa Lodge at the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater. It is perched at 7800 feet on the rim of a crater that was a former volcanic caldera. It is about 15 miles across, and again a stunning site to see. We spent a good part of the day in the crater itself, and saw a Black Rhino. Again at a long distance, but an impressive animal to see in the wild none the less. We also had the imprinting on our minds (ranging from 8 to 47) of a couple of Baboons "getting it on" about 20 feet in front of our vehicle. Some may have been scared by this site as it was quite a blatant display that happened quited unannounced in front of us. Kelly was the only one who missed it. This was evident by the fact that she repeated several times "what? What is it?" The rest of us stood with our mouths dropped stunned unable to answer. The only thing missing was some cheesy porno music! The Baboons as you may well know have really nasty backsides to them. The males are frequently playing with themselves as well, often tugging on their appendage and playing it like an air guitar for the benefit of any who will watch. I can only assume that they think we do, as they frequently do it when you just drive up much like a greeting. JAMBO!

Leaving the crater this morning, we stopped by the archaeological site of the Dr's Leaky who discover 3.5 million year old missing link fossils. It was an interesting diversion en route to our current location. The guide at the museum who gave us the lecture apologized to anyone who was a creationist among us as it was clearly just not possible given the evidence available that the earth is only 5000 years old.