Giraffe Park!

My new favorite place!  We took the Form 4 (Senior Class) New Dawn students on a field trip as a graduation gift to them.  First to the Giraffe Center and then out for a nice lunch at a guest house nearby, which took us forever to find.  That was a hoot watching 3 vans and a full bus going down one street after another, then trying to all turn around, going in circles, making phone calls, getting wrong directions....what was supposed to be 5 minutes away turned into 30 minutes.  

Several of us got to feed the giraffes.  Incredible.  These giraffes at the center are the Rothschild giraffes, which are endangered.  They have a breeding program here and are releasing giraffes into the wild, trying to enlarge the population of this particular specie.  There are nine species of giraffe.  Who knew?

  At the guest house we handed out ministry bags to the students with clothes and shoes.  Then gathered at outside tables for lunch.  Halima, Joanne, and Vivianne below were part of my art group during our arts camp.  Before lunch they took me aside and presented me with a Kenyan wrap/scarf as a gift.  I was floored.  We had a wonderful visit.  All three of them in fact have been coming to the arts camps each of my three years.  They are now graduating.  I will miss them next year.