Lion King anyone?

The Masai Mara is a reserve on the southern border of Kenya, which we travelled through Nairobi to get to. The park is beautiful and resplendent…an ecosystem at its finest. We spent two nights at a camp that bordered the park, and got up before sunrise to drive out to see the wildlife. Even though it’s supposed to be the dry season, we got rained on both evenings while out in the park. There are some fabulous pictures of us sporting gargantuan military ponchos, but we may burn those. We saw dozens of different animals – all very close! As long as people don’t venture outside of their cars, they are very comfortable with people. By far the two highlights were:

1) seeing a GIANT male elephant come walking down the road, forcing our cars out of the way.

2) coming across a lioness and her little cubs eating a zebra.

oh, and watching Claire use her two bags worth of camera equipment

If you know how much I love nature and wildlife, you know I could go on and on (and probably will when I get back), about how amazing our safari was. But, I can’t write it all out because we have a 6am wake-up call tomorrow! So, we’re sorry all these posts are short on the writing end, I’m sure the pictures are better than reading anyhow.

Here is the link to the slideshow for the Kenya pictures. http://clairesmith.myshowit.com/kenya

xoxo, Claire & Ashley

Oh, and here is one of our favorite pics from Kenya. Thanks to our good friend and awesome photographer Will Graham for this fun little photo shoot.