Trip to the Snake Park

From Charlie:

I was on the couch after breakfast when twenty gardners walked down the side of the house into the back yard near the clothesline and started picking out crabgrass from the yard. I have no idea why they did but I suppose it must have been because they did not want crabgrass in our yeard. Instead some other kinds of grasses. After they were finished they left piles and piles of grass everywhere. I have no idea what on earth they are going to with that grass, if it is going to rot away or what. While they were working, I snuck up on the counter, took my Mom's camera, and took a picture of them out the window. It was very awkward.



After the gardeners had left, our friends Jacob and Aiden took us to the Snake Park. We met our friends Noah, Cameron, and Ava there. We saw black mambas, spitting cobras, green mambas, tortoises, a vulture, and two different kinds of owls. We saw baby nile crocodiles and some grown-up crocodiles. The next most interesting lizard we saw were some monitors. My favorite animal in the snake park was the eastern chanting goshawk.

Holding the snake was kind of scary. I was afraid it would bite me. We didn't know what kind of snake it was. That was the big question.



My friend Cameron who is 12, got a bow and three arrows while we were there at the Maasai cultural boma.

I also rode a camel with Ava. The camel ride was very bumpy. You have to hold on really tight when they are getting up and sitting down. First their back legs come up and then you are pointing straight down at the ground and then it goes up. Going down is almost the same. Their front legs go down first and then their back legs go down last. Cameron also rode on a separate camel.



Afterwards we went to TGT. I do not know what it stands for. It is owned by a millionaire. It is very nice. It has a sushi restaurant and a rugby field. We met a boy named Andy. He could speak three different languages. After that, we went to the pool. It was baridi sana as usual. So that about wrapped everything up.