I Like Big Butts

Does it seem odd to visit a zoo on the continent that all the other zoos import animals from? Well, Kampala has a zoo – the Entebbe Wildlife Center. It’s not hard for this zoo to put the animals in their natural habitats. The zoo feels like the Ugandans found an animal and just put up a chain-link fence around them! My partner in “adventure” is Molly Nixon; visiting Uganda for two weeks with Tim and Merrill Smith from Pastor Jess Strickland’s church (Living Hope) in Aloha, Oregon. It was nice to spend time with people from home. Even though Molly and I just met here in Africa for the first time, we were “forced” to be fast friends, since we were constantly in close quarters in taxis, buses, and boda-boda rides! J We really did have a lot of fun exploring together. Molly is finishing up nursing school in May, and very well may find herself back here Uganda soon! There were no giraffes or elephants at this zoo… guess those can only be seen out on “safari” or in the “wild” here, but we did get most unreasonably close to the animals; hence, the picture of Molly’s foot on the Rhino’s horn and my uncertainty to shake hands with the monkeys due to my trepidation at getting rabies. As you can see, the African idea of safety is not comparable to the American mentality on safety, which was probably inspired by our litigious precedent. Nevertheless, we found ourselves hiking through the hidden trails of the zoo, getting close and personal with the animals, but ended up getting plenty of “butt shots” of animals instead. Our favorite animal of all was the Rhino…. “I like big butts, I can not lie” J