Chimptastic Birthday

Birthday summary: (only have 30 min)

Woke up to find balloons on my tent (from Lana and Georgia).  We happen to be staying at the campsite for 2 nights, so I was able to leave them on all day instead of having to take them right off.  They actually did it when I went to the bathroom, so they also filled my tent with balloons too.  I was then given a bag of Mars bars for a birthday present from Lana.  At breakfast there was a birthday card waiting for me, signed by everyone.  We were then off to see the chimps who were gracious enough to sing me Happy Birthday.  It was hard to get pics without a flash, but I have a video so you can hear it.  It's in Chimp, so you may not understand the words or the tune, but I knew it was for me.

I thought that was already the perfect day, but then my tentmate, Rebecca #2 (hehe she prefers to be Rebecca #1, but this is my blog!) made arrangements with our cook, Emmanuel, to teach me how to make chapati from scratch.  I've already learned to roll it, but didn't know how to make the dough.  That was super fun...with the exception of Lana throwing  flour on my face....grrrr....birthday beats! 

If that wasn't enough, we had orphans come sing for us and Pesh, our tour guide, asked them to sing me Happy Birthday.  It was SUPER CUTE!  I think I got Georgia's video of part of it.  I'll try to post it when I get home.  I gave them all the balloons that were in my tent and the leftovers.

I thought that was it.  What else could they do...but then there was a cake after dinner. It was made by Dave, a tour guide shadowing our trip.  We happened to be a campsite with an oven, so random, so he made it from scratch.It was the best cake we've had in Africa!

What a perfect day!  Thanks everyone who partook, I'll never forget it.