A rather long and busy day, but good by and large. It started at a freezing temp in my tent and an urgent need to urinate. After settling this need and consuming breakfast, we were off to the crater’s interior. It was a pretty but arduous descent and filled with promise of seeing a lot in a little area. We first saw flamingoes, hundreds if not thousands of them, and they were very noisy. It was splendid to watch them all flying away at once, rather overwhelming in fact. After this, we saw a family of hippos, which is always exciting. Then we saw another small pride of lions, which was great, as the male was actually active and walking. Then the true prize of the day came, two cheetahs. They were magnificent and passed straight by us. It was amazing because all eyes, 15 cars easily... and all animals: zebras, gazelles, wildebeests, etc, were on this fine pair. Following this, we again drove by the lions, then on to a pretty picnic area, by a lake.
Afterward, we caught sight of a rhino in the distance, but got no good shots of it unfortunately. We drove to get a better look but with no luck, as the rhino by then had knelt into obscurity from view. After this we tried to see another cheetah, which we did but from afar. We then set back for camp. When we arrived, Jozef had already taken down the tent, which was great. Some zebras showed up on the site quite close as well as a large stork, so I took some pictures of that. We ate lunch and left. We drove straight back to camp, which gook about three and a half hours or so. Once there, I erected the tent and talked to an English Czech girl who lived together in the UAE and were on holiday here. We eventually had our final night meeting, and got US$5.00 back from the kitty.
We then exchanged costumes for the fancy dress party. Kidae got me, and gave me a hideous, pink dress. We changed clothes and ate. Some of the outfits looked really funny. We then had Matt (the only one not dressed) judge our costumes and catwalk performances by strutting in front of everyone. I won first place for performance, starting it off with the nipple licking move. I also had a demand for an encore, which was strangely flattering. After this, everyone but me, Matt and Maria got drunk. I packed up my stuff and before writing this entry, had Alex come up to me and tell me (in an extremely drunken manner) that he told Erin what he thought of her. This was interesting and he proceeded to tell me of his spat with Jack that ensued (verbal). Eventually he went to bed and left me to write this entry.