Friday, November 23, 2007

Arrival at Safari Camp

We arrive at camp near dusk and must hurry to unpack and set up our tents. The 40/40 staff has already set up all the tents and provided the necessities for the camping experience. After our orientation with the staff, we eat dinner and then head inside our tents for the hottest night ever.
Top: Kids Tent
Bottom: Parents Tent Our family has not camped in a long time, so it was interesting learning all the things to do to make camp life normal (or what we consider normal). We had women's and men's showers as well as toilets set up within the campsite. It took some practice learning about the showers. We had to first carry our buckets to the well and then haul them to the showers. Once at the shower, you had to pull the bucket down and fill with water (hoping to keep all the water in the bucket and not spill any in the process). Once the water was in the shower bucket, you used a pulley system to hoast it above the shower area so you could actually get under it and shower. We had the option of heating our water on the fire before taking a shower, but I think we only did that once. It was so hot that the cold shower felt really good.


Men's Shower





Women's Shower




Setty-Ony






Squatty-Potty

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