This weekend was wonderful! On Friday we left for St. Lucia
(a low risk malaria zone, but a malaria zone indeed), which is 4 hours away,
I’m going to assume North but I really could not tell you exactly where right
now. We had to make sure we were on the road
at a reasonable hour because we didn’t want to be driving in the dark. Usually when someone says that you assume
crime, dangerous roads, or just someone’s personal preference of driving during
the day. But, no. This was due to the
excessive hippos that roam the street and actually cause car accidents and
other deaths due to the simple act of getting in its way.
So we made it to our apartments in one piece no hippo
accidents, although we were repeatedly warned of walking around at night
because hippos just come to town and graze in random places. So naturally we
searched for hippos instead of avoiding them, but we didn’t see any in the
streets.
Later that night, we started to see the first symptoms of
everyone’s malaria medication. Of course
I did not get my shit together in time so I was without the medication so I
just got to watch as people slowly started to show symptoms such as peeling
skin, weird dreams, various body rashes, and as Danielle put it “I feel weird”. It was fun for me honestly. But I did acquire 4 mosquito bites this
weekend so we’ll see who’s laughing in a few weeks….
We got to shower!!! It was incredible, I obviously took one
every single day, even though my natural scent is that of roses. Anywho, the whole reason we were there was
for SAFARI DAY! We woke up at 4:30 Saturday morning to get out there early
cause the earlier you go the more likely you’ll see CATS! No not cats. Jungle
cats. We piled into these open car thingys a drove around with a safari guide
that helped us spot animals! We ended up seeing a lion kill and the male lion
was guarding the bloody zebra until he was pleasantly stuffed so that later the
females (who did the hunting, damn patriarchy) can eat what’s left and feed
their babies.
After our long but incredibly fun safari, we went on a boat
ride to see crocodiles and hippos and several birds that our boat driver kept
stopping for that nobody cared about.
Hippos are spectacular! Crocodiles are creepy and apparently don’t like
to come out when its cold so we saw 1 and a half crocodiles. But the boat was supplied with a bar, so we
all had a good time.
There are pictures, but before you scroll to those lovely
beauts I just want to tell you that on Sunday I got to go to the beach! But not
just a beach, a beach highly populated by monkeys who love to steal food and
other objects. But luckily, none of our
things got stolen that day. So we
enjoyed a lovely day of snorkeling and relaxing, and a beach shower!! Yes, I
brought my shampoo. Showers are a luxury one cannot take for granted.
And now some visual aids to show you a little bit about our
weekend…photo credit to my beautiful friend Casey Coviello
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