Africas Funniest Things

Computer or Compooper?
In Soni a bird pooped on Pat's computer!

Bathroom Bads
Chapter 1: Hostage in Rwanda
In Rwanda I got stuck in the bathroom!
Chapter 2: Attempted suicide in Cairo
In Cairo I thought that a sprayer was the flusher and it sprayed and hit my head and the door!!

African Animal Bingo
How low can CT go?  And warthogs are omnivoires.

A Little Early
Today we got to the airport 6:00 HOURS early!

Liver?!
At dinner my mom tried to order grape leaves but got chicken liver

Theives
"I can't believe you just let a monkey steal our breakfast."

Not just humans

Humans  aren’t  the only  ones  relaxing  in  Dahab . Cats  and  dogs  love  relaxing  too!  So far we have seen  three  dogs  and  one  cat  in  lawn chairs ! All  they  need  is  sunglasses .

Life in Dahab

Greetings,

This is Mia and Will's Mom. Mia is allowing me ONE guest post since I wanted some pictures to show life in Dahab. The birthday pictures are truly awesome, especially since the presents came from Mom and Dad; but they don't show much about this beautiful sea-side town. I think Will might have described we are on the east coast of the Sinai Peninsula.Across the water is Saudi Arabia. Dahab is quite windy so a popular spot for windsurfers as well as scuba divers. Mia snorkeled along a coral reef wall today and saw lots of magnificent, brightly colored fish.  You can see that we are enjoying the leisurely life. See you all soon! Claudia

dahab birthday

   Dahab is in the Sinai, which splits the Red Sea apart.On our birthday on our first day here, I got a hippo, a basket, and a deck of playing cards. Mia got a bead basket,a soap stone box,and a felt elephant named magic. Dahab was a nice place to have a birthday.

Revenge

Hello friends of Will and Mia, this is their sister Maddie who has now hacked into their account and changed all the passwords. Unless my demands have been met in the next four hours, including a complete elimination of a certain site, the next post will have an extremely... let's say, interesting photo of Will and Mia. The countdown starts now. >:)

Mooooo!!!

If you like milk, Africa is not all good.  The milk to me and Will tastes terrible! Well at least, in Uganda and Tanzania. That's why Will and I were happy to taste normal milk. Our family has already drunk 3 litres of milk, which tastes great here in Egypt!

Charge charging the pyrmids !!!

This is Khefre's pyramid, right behind the Sphinx.:

WOW!! CHARGE IS CHARGING THE SPHINX!!!

I got "Charge" in Uganda and he is a famous and rare paisley rhinoceros. We are sorry to say that Charge wasn't actually there at the pyramids.

   We have been trying to memorize hieroglyphics and the cartouches of the pharohs.  King Tut's cartouche is made of: a bowl, a beetle, and a sun.


 

Meanwhile, further up the Nile in Egypt...

Today we visited the Pyramids of Giza.  The biggest one is for Khufu and we went inside.  Don't worry, we didn't get caught in any of the traps they built for grave robbers, but we did have a very personal experience with this Pharoh's coffin.  We drove camels!

This is Kefere's Pyramid, but we didn't go inside it. It is the 2nd tallest.
 

Welcome to the Nile

Yesterday we got to Jinja. Here is the latest version of where we have been -- green for the last week:

Today we are going rafting down the Nile. Today we are also havin'  our birthday party with our aunts      .

About Mbarara

We now are in Mbarara. We drove from Bushara island to mbara.We are staying at the 7 hills hotel.We are gonna stay here for 5 days.  Our mom met us here, after 3 weeks finally.  Mom is working and Will is making a secret code.  I can't wait to go to Egypt so I can ride a camel and see the Pyramids.

UGANDA

We are in Uganda on Bushara island. It is very cool here. We are making a map. It reminds us of Oregon. Birds love it here!There is many flowers  too and a rope swing into the lake!!!

Bon Jour from Rwanda

We are at the Gorillas Hotel and the bottle cap collecting is great.  Except the french don't know how to spell beer (biere? come on?!).

Here is where we have been so far in Africa:

It started raining the morning and we had to hide in a little town and drink tea and eat donuts.  Luckily, we did not slip off the side of the mountain roads!!  We ate 2 goats [well they did]. I was playing a heroic soccer match with some kids in town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have been learning alot, especially about gorillas and monkeys.  Here is a link to the homework that we have been doing: twins.homework.boring.  Third graders will be especially interested.

Mountain animals

We have now done some camping in the Serengeti and did not get eaten by the lions or the boa constrictor.  However six of our tires did get eaten (in one day).  Before we got to the Serengeti, first we drove from the Indian Ocean to the Usambara Mountains.

Guess what we found there?  Our favorite pets!

 
We also saw a baby turtle and monkeys and a great chameleon.  Gibbles and Esddey we miss you!

My friend Connor

Dear Connor,

           Happy Birthday!  Wish you were here, the local monkeys don't have a full troop and I thought maybe you could join and no one would notice. The weather is great here for camping and they live mostly on Mangoes and stuff they borrow from the farmers fields. You could experience true Hakuna Matata [no worries]!

see you later Will



                               

MIA ISLAND, and a few other things

We want to tell you about our adventures on the Indian Ocean.  We started at the port city of Tanga, Tanzania, and took a boat out into the ocean.  But we are having trouble posting pictures or comments to our blog.  So, we are going to post some responses to your fabulous questions here in this new post.  We also include a map to show you where we are traveling in Africa (so far: from Dar to Tanga to Lushoto):

WHAT IT IS LIKE IN AFRICA
Here in Africa its usually pretty hot. Where we are in the mountains, its really green but it can be really dry in other places. There are a lot of different flowers, animals, and style here. Its interesting to see it all.


REGARDING CHICKENS
The chickens at our friend Inno`s chicken farm are mostly cute. I think the baby chicks are the cutest. The 2 year old chickens  lay eggs.  When the chickens get old and cant lay any more eggs, Inno sells those old chickens for meat.


BACK TO MIA ISLAND
 This island is named after Mia. All it is is a beach, in the ocean that is usually covered with water.It is really cool. There are LOTS OF CRABS!!!! They make really deep holes.



ANSWERS TO OTHER QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

Q: Do you stay at a hotel?
A: Sometimes we stay at a hotel, but we also camp.


Q: Are there elephants there?
A: Yes they are in Africa but not in Soni (where we are right now).

Q: What kinds of things will you do during the six weeks?
A: We will do a lot of things, hiking, snorkeling, camping, swimming, going to markets, collecting bottle caps, etc.

Q: Do you have friends who live in Africa?
A: Yes, Ino and Santo are family friends of ours who live in Dar es Salaam and we make new friends every day!

BOTTLE CAP COLLECTING

We are now collecting bottle caps and there are lots of different kinds!  When we solve a little problem, we will show you pictures of our collections.

African Chicken Farm

Did you know that we stayed at a chicken farm when we got to Tanzania on Tuesday?  2,500 new chicks arrived the night after we did and they are really cute.

Hi from Dubai

This is the Burj Khalkifa, the tallest building in the world!  We are going up inside it in a few hours.  Mia and Maddie went skiing at the mall and we took this picture as we were zooming by on the subway.  More later...

The Flights we are Taking Now

This map shows where we will be flying -- that is the blue line.  We start flying in Los Angles at 4:00 in the afternoon and don't get to Dubai until 7:00 in the evening the next day.  We will see two sunsets without even getting out of the plane.  That is because we will be flying in the opposite direction the world is spinning.

Should we go back to Egypt?

Here is my sister's elephant, Elmer, visiting Egypt a few years ago.  We would like to vist Egypt this time, but only if they are not fighting.  It would be fun to drive a camel, or a tank. What do you think?

Here's a Picture of Mia

This is Mia in Africa when she was 5 years old, she'll be turning 9 on this trip.

This was our last visit, in 2008.

Here is Will during his last trip, doing geography!