Saturday, January 15, 2011

Pictures from the Niger Adventure, Part 2

Our amazing dinner at Ziggy's, a buvette on the Niger river.  The sunset, the water, the peas
with REAL BUTTER... fantastic evening.

Bevin kept doing cool poses, like eating, in front of the sunset.  I now
have 800 pictures of her silhouette.

As we left Niamey, we went on a giraffe safari.  This is when our bus got stuck in loose sand (because there are no roads in the wildlife reserve), and we had to get out.  About 8 boys/men magically appeared out of nowhere and pushed the van to less loose sand.

Just when we thought we weren't going to get to see giraffes, Bevin spotted this one on the horizon.  We drove over and snapped a bajillion pictures before it ran away... by the way, giraffes run incredibly slowly sometimes.  Like in slow mo.

Our happy "we saw giraffes!" faces.  L to R: Rosa, Bridget, Dione, and Bevin.

I swear there is a giraffe in the background somewhere.

After leaving the first giraffe, we found a group of 3 others.  This one galloped in
front of our van as we were driving out of the park.

Right as were were about to leave Niamey on an early-morning bus, I saw this zem driver (to the left) wearing a Buckeyes championship sweatshirt. He wasn't feeling pretty enough for a picture, so he made this other guy pose with me.  Hah!

After Niamey and Malanville, we visited Jenny's village in Sori.  This is her with the kids in
her concession -- isn't that little girl cute??

Maybe my favorite picture of Jenny ever.  That girl is SO cute!

I let them braid my hair... subsequently spent a year wrestling with my hairbrush and a bottle of conditioner. :)

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