safari and such

So Im writing this into a word document since I cant find an internet connection out here. I just dont want to forget everything while I attempt to find the internet. Last night we got into the Mara, and checked into Keekorok Lodge. On the way in we saw a leopard, cheetahs, lions, elephants, zebras, antelope, gazelle, wildebeest, and giraffes! Food is delicious, but I cant say that I dont want a nice cheeseburger right now. One of the doctors, Grady Arnold, and I were discussing how thats the first thing were going to get off of the flight from London. My first stop in Dallas is going to be Fuddruckers, and his stop in Chicago is going to be Five Guys. Oh the little things. While walking to the van for an early game ride at 6:15 this morning, I watched a man cutting the grass with a machete. Only in Africa. Or another third world country I guess. Im sitting on the back porch of mine and Andreas room and I am literally looking out onto the plains. There was just an elephant about thirty feet from me, but he wandered away. This is such an immense priveldge, and I know that my homesickness and my sadness have been taking away from me appreciating it, but its hard to just turn your feelings off. I was talking to my dad this morning, saying, "Dad, two weeks is such a long time!" with tears in my voice, and he just reminded me that its downhill from here. We've crested the hill and we can just coast. PAUSE MY DRAMATIC STORY BECAUSE THERE IS A HERD OF THOMPSONS GAZELLE LIKE 50 FEET FROM ME RIGHT NOW. Wow. That is just spectacular. Okay. Back. I am kind of selfishly hoping that we dont have too many surgeries to do next week. Dont get me wrong, I love that they are changing lives and helping people and that is 100% the reason that we are here, but sitting around in the hospital while all the surgeons change lives and I just assist with little tasks, gets boring. And it gives me time to think. A slow day full of thinking is definitely NOT good for me right now. So if they are done operating by Tuesday, and we go to Mombasa on Wednesday, the week will positively fly by. And I think I need that. This is an invaluable experience, but I need my mom right now! And my friends!!! I know I say that just about every single entry, but its so true! You might think that I am super occupied while Im here, I know that some people do ): , but I really am not. I do a lot of sitting and waiting to be needed. I am not that huge of a help, although Andrea insists that I am. There are monkeys everywhere here. Like all over the lodge. Everywhere you look, another monkey. While Jake and Dad and a few others visited the Masai Village (I skipped out because I was feeling exhausted and had seen it before) Grady, Bruce, Jim, Andrea and I sat by the pool and rested (it was much to cold  to swim, but thats not stopping Jake!) While I was napping, Grady witnessed a monkey stealing an Indian family's Cheetos! Haha. He said that the woman went to go take the Cheetos back and her husband grabbed her by the scarf to stop her, because the Cheetos were already full of monkey germs! I think I am going to pause my typing for now, because I have no internet anyways, and Jake is waiting for me at the pool. I will probably extend this entry later. I am going on another game park ride at 4. which is in about 2 hours. I have a lot of pictures already, but internet is much too slow to try to upload them. Alright. Bye for now! :)