We had driven to the entire western edge of the Serengeti, but had outdriven the animals. The main herds were still a couple of days behind us, and we had spent the two days before driving around looking at a few stray herds. Our accomadations were amazing - another tent village- the view of the plains were spectacular. Very reminiscent of Jurassic Park which was the boys favorite movie when they were kids. They would spend hours and hours in the playroom reenacting every scene from the movie. Joseph was a dinosaur boy, he would talk and read and discuss the dinosaurs all the time. His fashion sense from the age of 1 to 5 was based on dinosaurs.
We spent the evenings hanging out at the restaurant talking and joking. The Masai warriors escorted us back and forth to our tents. On the way back one night Joseph saw a stream of “army” ants. He squatted down in excitement to show us what would happen when you disturbed the column of ants; they would spread out in disarray around the disturbance but soon would regroup into a column. We played with them for a while. The next night they got us back. In the dark we walked right into a column of the ants. They climbed up my pant legs and I had to run back to the tent to get changed as soon as possible. I tried to wash my clothes and drown the ants. The next morning when the clothes were dry the dead ants were still lockjawed onto the material and I had to pick them off one by one.
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