Hakuna Matata

To begin I am so incredibly thankful that my groups awesome driver was okay with the fact that the entire safari I referenced animals by their name in The Lion King and other kid movies.

Let me show you a fewanimals  that we saw:
First up Nala (the Swahili word for lion in Simba but since she was a lioness she will forever be Nala)

 She walked in front of our van with an attitude of, "oh, I'm sorry, was that where you were driving" and believe me no one in our van was going to argue with her.  As far as we were concerned we got in her way and we would move when she was ready for us to move.

That white part in the corner, yep that's our vehicle.  That's how close we were to this lion who looked at us with an air of "fine take my picture but you are boring".  (She was kind enough to allow us to humor her with our presence until she deemed us unworthy and left with her friend whom I did not get pictures of.)

Next we had an ostrich (I couldn't think of any well known ostrich characters so we will just say this is Road Runner's cousin or something like that).

I kept waiting on it to get scared and stick its head in the ground or something but my group must have really not been intimidating because it just meandered around like we were invisible.

Then, of course we saw several Melman's (Madagascar movie character for anyone without kids). We saw tons of giraffes and zebras.

 Look, isn't he cute....at least I think it's a he....but really what does it matter it's not like the giraffe is ever going to read this....so as of now it's a he.

Ahhh, the amazing zebra.  These were probably some of the most fun to see just because of their color and because they reminded me of the Jersey Shore cast....make your own opinion about that but yes I watch and I am not ashamed.

In the above picture if you look really close you can see the zebra walk in straight lines, naturally.  I never once saw or heard a teacher zebra having to remind them that walking in a straight line is necessary for survival.  This will be shared with my students this year.

I'm not sure what these birds are, I think I was told that they are called Secretary birds.  Regardless every bird I saw was promptly named Zazu.  Thank you Disney for giving me names for all safari animals whether they are correct or not is beside the point. 

The last picture is of a water buffalo.  Don't you want to wake up next to this face every morning.  Handsome isn't he ladies.  Yes, I am aware that this is another instance where the animal could be a girl but I'm defaulting that all of the animals are boys except for the lionesses.

Well that's all I've got. I hope you enjoyed this random glance at safari!