Tues 14 Feb Masai Mara

Happy Valentines Day!!
We had a good night sleeping in our tent. I woke up a few times hearing wild animal calls that I mentally wrote off as baboons as they sounded like they were on our tents porch. It was pitch black in our tent which felt eerie. I couldn't remember a time when it had ever been so dark. The lovely staff made us a huge breakfast of eggs, crepes, fruit etc. It seemed gluttonous to eat so lavishly when you know the people around you make very little money and likely don't eat nearly this well. I felt like they were fattening us up to feed to the lions!
We took off back to the park. We got to see some animals we haven't seen yet like hippos and ostrich(my favorite, they are so strange and large and they have really lofty feathers and flounce about). We made it back to camp for a massive pork lunch. I was curious as to what we were going to have for dinner as we had eaten every type of meat already. The other couple and guide had left so it was just us and Titus. We were starting to get the feeling that Titus is burnt out on the whole safari thing. He is really great at finding animals and knows all the roads. He said he had been guiding for about 10 years. Though he lacked any sort of enthusiasm and seemed to snap at the camp staff. Luckily, we still had a good time!
We took off on an afternoon safari then back for dinner. A lot of animal chasing and eating on this trip! The camp staff were so great. They found valentine balloons and put them on our table, they kept coming out and telling us happy valentines day. One kid asked if we saw all the animals in couples making the love...I think he didn't know what that meant in english but we laughed and tried not to embarrass him. There were a lot of things that got lost in translation with the camp staff, it was pretty funny. We had a choice for dinner of fish or ox liver(I knew we were out of meats!). I opted for the fish, Tommy decided to try the liver. They wouldn't tell us what was for desert and you could tell they had something up their sleeves, it was really cute. After we finished dinner they all dissappeared then a few minutes later came out in a conga line singing with a homemade heart shaped cake. They sang us songs in Swahili about love and we all shared the cake. It was truly amazing. They had clearly spent all day making the cake, I think they accidentally used salt instead of sugar for some of the frosting and the cake was the same as the homemade bread we had been having for breakfast. It was decorated with candied cherries and drawings. They were all so happy and proud. I didn't take any pictures because the moment was so special we just enjoyed every second.
After the festivies we showered and fell asleep.