This weekend I went into Arusha National Park with a visitor from Darwin and saw giraffes, zebras, lots of different kinds of deer, colobus monkeys, baboons and flamingos-all only an hour's drive away. On the Sunday we visited a very interesting friend of hers (a Tanzanian lady married to Aust guy) Her family owns the local airline but they have sold half to build an orphanage in their home town.

I am writing this is Word as I have no internet connection at this stage. Will copy and paste it into the Blog when I do-hopefully it's just matter of putting in the St Jude's password and all will be good. The flight was long but not nearly as difficult as I thought-lots of people doing long haul flights to all over the place. Emirates is a very comfortable airline to travel on- a choice of over 200 movies and heaps of entertainment. I think I watched 5 movie...