I'm back. After a lengthy (8 days) trip with the Paps, I am once again updating my blog. I found out the Thursday before they left that they were going on vacation the following Monday. They asked if I wanted to go with, and I decided...why not. So we left Monday morning at 6:30 AM and drove to the southwestern section of Uganda. We stayed at Bushara Island, which is located on Lake Bunyonyi, close to Rwanda. The island has no electricity and no running water, so they heated water in buckets and we used that for showers. For food, we ate at a restaurant on the island, which got quite menotanous after a while. The food was good enough, but after a week of the same things, it got old. We stayed in army tents, which had two double beds set up in each tent. I slept with two of the kids in my tent, which turned out to be quite the parental practice. One child wet the bed in the middle of the night and I had to find a solution to that problem while half asleep and disconbobuled. For those of you who have seen me when I just get up, you know what I'm talking about. I decided to put two towels over the wet spot (they weren't our towels anyways) and one child could still sleep in the bed. The other came into my bed and I found out that he is an active sleeper. I'm pretty sure that he kept me awake at least an hour while tossing and turning, all the while sleeping. The next part of our trip was totally awesome. We went to Queen Elizabeth Park in the far west part of Uganda. There I saw a lion, elephants, water buffalo, hippos, crocodiles, exotic birds, monkeys, ugangan kobs (kinda like gazelles), water bucs (kinda like elk), and a bunch more. Unfortunately, I didn't get many pictures on my digital camera, because it doesn't have zoom. However, Gerrit took a bunch of pictures with his camera that has 300x zoom, so I'll be able to get doubles from him. It was so awesome. Once we saw two baby elephants playing (by pushing each other) and then the mother elephant saw us. She wagged her ears and started trumpeting and coming towards us. She stopped about 5 metres away so we have some great pictures of that. It really made me stand in awe of God's creation. Anyways, on the way home, we saw some zebras grazing beside the road (they were in a different game park) so that also was really cool. The coolest part of the trip was seeing a hippo and her young eating grass in our cabin's backyard. We didn't get any pictures because hippos are extrememly dangerous when they are out of water, and the camera's flash didn't work properly. So to any of you with a lot of money, I do recommend that you travel to Africa and go on a safari (you can also visit me too, which would be really awesome).