Sunday, August 2

Luckily today we have been given the morning off. We all slept in and took our time getting ready this morning. Like I said yesterday we have to keep everything in the truck and not our tent so after changing clothes I moved my pj’s and sleeping bag (and HARRY!) back to the truck. We bummed around the area until breakfast which was a nice change and splurge of Kellogs Corn Flakes.

This morning Jess and I are just relaxing up at Chimp’s Nest outdoor bar and restaurant and tried to catch up on our blogs. The view is SO beautiful I wish I could share this experience with all of you! Unfortunately, Jess is starting to feel pretty sick complaining of upset stomach and really dizzy. Simon still is recovering from malaria so he actually has a cottage to sleep in instead of a tent, so hopefully Jess will go in there at some point today and try and get some rest.
This afternoon everyone has started to unpack our equipment to start finishing up work from Entebbe projects so we can be ready to start new projects in another day or two. Luckily, anthropology team isn’t far behind on stuff. All we really need to do it just type of our notes from all the interviews we have done so we can upload it on the new website anthropology section. In fact, the whole handshake has a new website up and running as of yesterday (1st anniversary from the start of the 1st ever expedition).

Before lunch, Lucy, Connor, Nicola M., David, and Nicola S. decided to go on a quick forest walk. It was amazing!!! As soon as we walked into the forest we saw baboons up in the canopy and then we saw Pata monkeys and red tail monkeys! We went to the “tree house” owned by Chimp’s Nest to see what it looked like and to see if any of us wanted to splurge for one night and sleep there in the forest up in a tree. It was beautiful. We couldn’t get into the tree house but we went up on the patio and the few is amazing. You are truly surrounded by the forest and just sit still and watch and listen to all the wild exotic animals running around their natural habitat. The hike there wasn’t to bad because it was mainly downhill but coming back to camp was pretty painful. All uphill and I don’t think our lungs have adjusted to the altitude change yet.

We spent the afternoon working in the café having a wonderful view of the forest. Jess and I got hungry so we ordered food from the restaurant and had a great tuna pizza right before cook team for the day had to cook dinner. They cooked spaghetti with very little sauce so I am glad I had already eaten dinner.

After dinner we all relaxed and went up to the “Chimp’s bar” and had a view drinks and watched an African dance/ music group come and sing. They had tons of people there singing and a few African instruments going. They asked us to join in the dancing so lot of the people went out on and danced with them. Unfortunately I did not have my camera on me so I didn’t get any shots but others did so I will have to steal them.

We were all quite tired after it all so everyone was happy to go to sleep after that.