Where the Wild Things Are

The notable thing about today was yesterday.

Tim: Do you want to go to Arusha National Park tomorrow?
Kiyah: Yes.


And today we went... and throughout I jockeyed the opposing notions that our day trip was ordinary and extraordinary - common and uncommon - something we never get to do...  and something we'll get to do often.  Kiyah and I craned our necks out the windows and up to the canopy of the heavy forest that blankets the slope of Meru eager, but not desperate,  to see the elusive black and white colobus monkey.  But there was no disappointment when it failed to materialize.  Perhaps we'll see it next time.

Eleanor was more interested in the breast that the beasts.  Old habits die hard, I suppose.  She was thrilled to sit in the front seat with Mom, free of the car seat and the back of our heads.  Together we trundled, happily down the road.
-tdb

That's Mount Kilimanjaro in the distance- get a good look while the snows are still there.

 

 

 

 

And this is Mount Meru- the mountain we see from our apartment.