When we came down the mountain and got back to the hotel, we were all exhausted and so ready for a shower. Since I had a double room with dad though, I had to wait and shower afterwards. It was still great. Going a week without a shower just makes you appreciate it so much more.  After we all got cleaned up, we went and all got our certificates and a well-deserved celebratory Kilimanjaro beer.  The next day a big group of us went into Moshi town.  Once again, we got swarmed by the locals trying to sell us something or other. Despite that, I still really enjoyed town.  The day after that, Tuesday, 4 of us went on a safari to Tarangire National Park.  I really wanted to see a lion or leopard, but no dice. We did, however, see heaps of elephants, loads of impala, and a few giraffes, zebras, warthogs, dikdiks, and yellow monkeys. At lunch time, we were sitting at a table and looked away for 5 seconds and a monkey stole our biscuits! We were thankful it wasn’t our cameras, but I was looking forward to those biscuits. After lunch, we came across a group of elephants not 10m away from the truck.  We stopped and watched them bathing and washing themselves in a mud pool.  It was the most incredible thing. On the way home we stopped off at Kilimanjaro airport to drop off dad.  It was really sad saying goodbye to him for the second time; it was awesome to break up my trip with parts where I was with family. When we got back to the hotel, we found out the only bus to Nairobi left at 6am the next day, and not 11am as we had originally planned, so we had to pack and it was an early night.  Amy and I then took the bus from Moshi to Arusha to Nairobi, and I slept pretty much the entire way. We got to the hotel and just chilled that afternoon, I booked my flight while Amy lounged by the pool. The next day we went to the elephant and giraffe sanctuaries. At the elephant sanctuary we watched the baby elephant orphans being fed, and they were so cute! We also saw an orphaned rhino at that sanctuary as well. We then moved on to the giraffe sanctuary, where we got to feed the giraffes. They are such gentle creatures. Both Amy and I “kissed” a giraffe (we put the piece of food in our lips and the giraffe took it) and it was pretty disgusting.  We then went to do some errands, and then went back to pack. Since I booked last minute I wasn’t able to get a direct flight, or even a close to direct flight to Australia, so I’m at the Nairobi Airport now, waiting to board to go to Amsterdam. After Amsterdam I fly to Malaysia and then to Australia. Here’s to yet another long day of travelling.