Hell's Gate

Ok first of all, no more bodily fluid stories so everyone can read on without anxiety!! Last weekend we decided to go camping at Hell's Gate a national park in Kenya. Mathiesen, myself and two German boys. Although, I would like to say right up front that Mathiesen and I basically did everything, we took these men to help us but they were useless, I don't think they camp much in Germany. We got to the campsite late on Friday night, it was already dark and as we are setting up our tent, one of the guys yells out look. And up walks a warthog. We later found out this warthog is the campsites, and his name is Paul. Shout out to Paul Cascio, I was offended that a warthog had the same name as you!!! Anyway, so the warthog was slightly freaky. Then in the middle of the night we woke up to hippos making noise. Fortunately, the campsite has an electric fence to keep the hippos out but that is also scary when u think about it!! Next morning, I was in the tent everyone else was at the washing station and Paul walks into the tent with me. It took about 5-10min for me to get him out. He tried to eat everything clothing, glasses, wallets. It was not ok. He also head butted me. I was traumatized but not hurt. Anyway, after this I really did not like Paul. Then we spent the day bicycling thru the park, it was about 2000 degrees but awesome. We biked past zebras, water buffalo, giraffes etc. Fortunately, we did not see lions or cheetahs, which is what the German guys wanted to see. Then we took a 3hr hike thru a gorge. It was so amazing and gorgeous. Loved it. Then Sunday morning we were woken up by monkeys going thru our campsite!! Awesome!! Camping in Kenya with warthogs, hippos and monkeys! I never thought this would be my life, but I love it!! This week the kids have exams, so we are hoping our tutoring, especially Mathiesen's special teaching skills will improve the kids scores!!!