Day 1 - Tanzania

We woke at 3 am to catch our flight. Everything went smoothly at the airport in Dubai. We landed a bit late in Doha and had to speed race to our gate to catch our connection flight to Dar Es Salaam. The flight to Dar was 6 hrs. I was sat in front of the brattiest 6 year old in the Middle East. Before we even took off I was asking the kids dad to ask him to stop kicking the back of my seat. By the end of the flight, I had asked his mom and his dad both to ask him to stop. Oh maybe I should add that their small baby was screaming the whole time too. I didn't care so much about the screaming baby. You can't help that.....but a six year old kid should listen to his parents. Anyways, I was glad when that flight was over. We landed for a short while in Dar to drop off a bunch of passengers and back in the air for our final destination - Kilimanjaro International Airport. We landed at about 4:30 pm local time, got our visas processed and we're on our way to our 2 night home Bristol Cottages Bed & Breakfast in Moshi. We can walk outside the property and see Mount Kilimanjaro. The locals call it "Kili". We checked in and I thought I saw something interesting on the page before ours.....the person checking in before us....is Canadian! What a small world! We settled in our room and off we went for dinner at the restaurant in the B&B. Everything is home made to order. Can you imagine? I ordered a chicken wrap and even the tortilla was freshly made while we waited. Yummy food. We went back to our room for an early night since we were both exhausted from the early start on our travel day. Lights out 8:30 pm.

Mount Kilimanjaro

BEER!

Photoshoots

I've been doing a few random photoshoots.

One I did was with the Playa Animal Rescue.  There are putting together a calendar for a fundraiser.  Here are a few of my favorites that I took :-).

It's a bird... it's a plane... no... it's a dead plant. haha

It's just a yellow/old plant.  I'm not a good enough whisperer to ask him to pose in a different location.  I am thinking of printing one of these though and it is actually a good idea to remove that yellow plant first.  It IS distracting, I'll give you that.

Really!

Between the deer and the tree trunk, about at the top of the deer's ears, I swear the yellow and black looks like a bird....either I have a good imagination or the computer monitor is much better than yours.  Either way I'll take the peacock, you bird whisperer....LOL.  I can't believe WB didn't even cross your mind.  Probably because I was taking deer pictures and you were pushing Mr. Fischer's old car with your buddies.  Remember that?  That huge boat you guys bought.  LOL.

Birds?

I have no idea what you're talking about... what yellow and black birds?... There are no birds in the images.  Have you been drinking again?

Uh, it didn't remind me of Willow Bunch actually.  It reminded me of camping in Cypress hills.  I remember there was one deer I was "hunting" down.  Funny enough, I felt like I was hunting this deer.  I would put my camera down until he looked away, then I would raise it up to my eye... Bang!!... aaaaaw, no...

Actually the view is not from my balcony.  I couldn't get a good enough view, so I went down.  But no worries, because I am also a deer whisperer :-).  Apparently the dog whispering body language works on deer too.  As well as peacocks... like i did here:

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Nice view from your balcony.  Does it remind you of living in Willow Bunch....or have you forgotten how plentiful deer were....mostly in the coulees but occasionally on hoods of cars decending the South Hill.  Funny thing is, at first glance I saw the yellow and black bird and then the deer.  What's with that?

My new pet

Yay, finally I got my camera out to take some pics of the deer in the back yard :-).  I am thinking of photoshopping Maya into one of them to see if we can tell the difference.  Enjoy.