Where the Malawi were we?!

Kristin-----> so im going to start this one which is difficult because we havent posted anything new since... jesus zanzibar! so since then we have been to malawi and now we are in (sean's favorite zimbabwe). so let me think back, first of all in malawi i was laying on the beach, still loving the indian ocean, when i saw a rainbow. then i did a double take because it was upside down. then i looked again because the fucking thing made a complete cirlce around the sun right smack in the middle of the sky! i had never seen anything like it and it even cam out in pictures which is super cool. our tour trainee andy says its because of ice crystals in the clouds or because of a miracle from god. haha take you pick! now im going to jump ahead like a week because the past 2 days have been just ridiculous. first of all we woke up yesterday at antelope park and went to play with some 7 week old lion cubs. they are ridiculously cute and just tumble around on short little legs and bellies that almost touch the ground. we even got to feed them right out of a bottle which was even more cool. then we go to the bar before lunch to grab some chocolate or something when 4 elephants come striding by to play. we hung out with them and fed them and took some hardcore close up pictures. it was the weirdest thing they love corn and when you have a handful it just goes at you with its trunk and waits for you to pour it in, like a giant straw or something. and if you are lucky they will just stand there looking like they are smiling with their mouths wide open waiting for you to throw their food in. it was soooooo awesome and i really hope that we can get some pictures up this time because we probably have some of the best ones yet. one more thing before i let sean ramble :) he cut his hair! ahaha but it was for an awesome cause. we went to an orphanage and since we raised enough money for them our guide andy agreed to shave his head. the kids got such a kick out of it that sean jumped in and another kid went for a mohawk. that was awesome too the kids loved stealing our cameras and talking about everything they could think of. Sean ----->Oooooowwweee! So The rest of Tanzania was aahhight. Malawi was supercool. The nicest people ever. For some weird reason, Malawi has a unusual amount of albino people, so it's a big deal when people donate sunblock. Our first two campsites were right on the lake (Lake Malawi), and from the first one, we did some really long hike to the top of a flat-topped mountain where there's a town on top called Livingstonia. Supercool. The next campsite was also on the beach, and we swam out to an island which looked really close, but was actually far as fuck. I thought I was gonna drown. If you Google it, it's right off of a place called Kande Beach. I didn't think I was gonna make it back. We stayed for a few nights in the capital Lilongwe, at a pretty cool place that actually had hot water. Then we crossed into Mozambique, where we didn't do much but pass through for two days, stopping only for lunch and to camp off the side of the highway litterally in the middle of nowhere. Oh snap! And in Mozambique we crossed the Zambezi River and stopped in a place called Tete, where Kristin stubbed her toe, which sucked that it was a night we were bush camping the day before we got to Zimbabwe which has a pretty bad cholera problem. OH YEAH! Kristin just reminded me that at the place in Mozambique in the middle of nowhere where we were camping, we had to watch out for LANDMINES! True story. The sky in Africa is beautiful and ten times bigger (I don't care what anyone says) than it is in the US. Kristin-----> hmm the timer says 21 minutes and counting so im going to end my part super quick so that i can try to get those damn pictures up. just popped into my head, me and sean quit taking our malaria pills! we had to. they were crazy, or rather making us crazy. we finally noticed some sick side effects and decided to look at the information about them. turns out they cause everything from paranoia to crazy dreams to suicidal thoughts... and on and on. so we decided its better to die of malaria then the malaria pills. right? but no worries there are people on our tour that have had it multiple times and turned out just fine. but we still feel the side effects so if we seem weird when you run into us back in the states that is probably why. speaking of which yesterday was a sad one, halfway between nairobi and capetown. im done here is sean! sean---->So we're gonna try to get some pictures up of Zimbabwe (my new favorite place on the planet). Their currency is about invalid now. We traded a US dollar bill for a hundred billion Zimbabwean dollars. Probably the best deal in the history of trading currencies, I'd say. Tomorrow morning, before we head to Bulawayo, there's a lady here that's going into the nearest city (Gweru) for some stuff and hopefully she'll bring us a ten trillion dollar bill. She only wants one US Dollar for it. I'm scamming these people left and right. Super quick: Our last campsite, Kuimba Shiri, was just outside of Harare, and it's right on a big manmade lake. They have two pet lions at the campsite (in a cage), and we had to watch out for zebra shit every time we walked to the bathroom or the bar. Zebras roam freely around the campsite. They also had a shitload exotic birds, and after that, the orphanage, and yesterday hand-feeding elephants and lion cubs in the same hour, after seeing a red dragonfly and a HUGE monitor lizard where I was just playing frisbee, this has gotta be the coolest week ever. Tomorrow we head to Bulawayo, where we're outside of a black rhino sanctuary, and there's only 500 left on Earth, then it's Victoria Falls! Woo hoo. Miss youse guys. Be good. Should be back on here in three days.