So I've recently returned from a trip to Tanzania, my first time to Africa, and right now a life changing trip. It was magical and a slice of heaven for me. I had a journal during the trip, and of course my diligence with writing daily petered out by the end of the trip. So before I forget, I will take moments during my regular work week to write a bit about the trip. Before I forget and get caught up with real life, work, and spring gardening!

10 memories of Arusha

1. Climbing 130 steps up & down at our first lodge to our cottage. By the second night, realizing my husband and I received this cottage probably because we were the youngest in the group!
   
2. The view from our cottage, mouse-birds, and hearing a preacher & music in the evenings. 
3. Visiting the Dutch rose nurseries, never would have imagined it is big business there! One green house was 3 hectares!
4. Vervet monkeys hanging out in the morning at the lodge. 
5. Victor- our nature guide. Friendly, hardworking
6. People everywhere, walking here and there; a constant flow of people. At first I wondered, "where is everyone going?!" then realizing here we're in our cars; in Arusha a majority don't have cars.
7.  Waking up at midnight to a flooded room from a rainstorm! Not bad, an inch or so and a musty smell of mud in the morning. Luckily we had for some reason, lifted items off the floor earlier in the evening!
8. Mt. Meru & Mt. Kilimanjaro
9. Going to bed by 9 p.m. and up by 6 a.m. to the sunrise and an early breakfast. 
10. Visiting David's home, meeting his wife, and eating a delicious meal!