Queen Elizabeth National Park Trip

Our latest trip was to Queen Elizabeth National Park, which is considered to be one of the best places to go if you want to see tons of animals in a short period of time (perfect for tourists in other words). It was about a 7 hour car ride there, plus traffic, and so basically we were on the road and unloading and packing for two of the four days that we were there. At the park, we did multiple game drives at sunrise and sunset, and a cruise on the channel cutting through the park. We camped with two other families that we know very well, the Willisons and the Nobles. The Willisons have 5 kids, and the Nobles have 3. We are close friends, and we saw TONS of game. And literally TONS. We saw hundreds of elephants, traveling in herds of about 10, hundreds of hippos, traveling in pods of about 20, lots of mongooses, traveling in packs of about 10, hundreds of water buffalo, and hundreds of water bucks. All of these animals, apart from the mongooses (yes it is mongooses, we looked it up),weigh extreme amounts, and could tear us and our cars apart easily.
And, since it is spring, we saw the babies of every species of animal that we saw. Mom will be posting on their cuteness.
Also, we saw just about every type of bird imagenable, including fish eagles, hawks, egrets, and weaverbirds.
We were a little bit dissapointed that we missed out on the cats who are supposed to be in the park, such as lions, leopards, and cheetahs. And we had hoped that we would see a hyena.
We had lots of fun and hope to do it again with some family members who are visiting. Wink, wink, cough, cough.
The pictures for this post will be put on a slideshow on the sidebar on the homepage.

Here is the site for Queen Elizabeth:
http://www.game-reserve.com/uganda_queen_elizabeth.html

O ya, and a post is almost ready about the DDR. We just need to take a video and upload it!