Didn't She Say She was Going to Africa?

Ok -- it's catch up time. We spent a couple of nights in beautiful little Dahab - - not nearly long enough. The snorkeling was gorgeous and the beach was lined with those wonderful restaurants where you sit on cushions on the floor and dozens of cats always milling about. Wish I could say that I liked Cairo as much, but unfortuinately is was hot, dirty, loud, crowded, polluted. . . ugh. And we could seem to get anywhere successfully in a taxi because of the language barrier. Luckily we only budgeted two days for the city. We saw the pyramids during an extremely uncomfortable horse ride. I hate to sound ungrateful, but I really just couldn't wait for it to be over. It was hot. HOT and UNCOMFORTABLE.
We flew on to Nairobi from there to meet up with our overland truck tour. Very fun. Fabulous group of people. Hit the Masai Mara and saw thousands and thousands of wildebeest migrating, tons of zebra, many elephants, some rhino and about a gazillion little Thompson gazelles. There was just an amazing abundance of wildlife. We also hit Lake Naivasha, and Nakuru National park and saw even more animals. I think we saw just about everything we could in terms of the wildlife. We had some additiona great game spotting when we moved south to Tanzania. In the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater we saw cheetahs, leopards, hippos, more and more zebra and giraffe (which we had already seen plenty of in Kenya as well -- in fact, in Kenya we went to a giraffe orphanage where you can feed the giraffes right out of your hands). Basically the safari was wonderful - - great tour guides and great tourists. We made plenty of new friends.
After the constant movement of the tour, it was time for the beach. We made our way to Zanzibar on the stinkiest (remember the B.O.?) ferry ever. We couldn't even bear to sit inside it smelled so bad. Way too much humanity. But the island was gorgeous. The whitest, softest sand and clearest water possible. It was a week well spent, and the decision was made there to fly to Jo'burg, South Africa rather than torture ourselves by going it all overland.
Sorry for the boring as hell, poorly written posting but it is all about catching up at this point. Urgh.