Gorillas, are you kidding me?

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not quite in a row, but got to tell you about what i just did a couple of days ago. We were in Rwanda, and went trekking in the jungle up a small mountain to find a family of gorillas. There were about 12 gorillas, a few babies and about 3 that were just huge. We had to bushwack our way up there for a couple of hours attempting to dodge numerous stinging nettles which are a mother. They go right through your clothing an cause a burning stinging sensation for about 15 minutes. I was constantly getting elbows and knees hit and once fell on my back and had a nice sensation. I can't say enough about seeing the gorillas, though. You just can't imagine the sensation of looking into the eyes of these amazing animals as they stare back at you and into you. We watched for over an hour, changing positions to see other gorillas. The babies were quite playful swinging about and pulling branches down. Most of the time the gorillas were sitting or laying down and changing their positions. They are so human like, or maybe we are just so gorilla like. I will remember it forever and is indeed one of the most incredible things I have done, and i have racked up quite a few amazing things. While in Rwanda, we also had a very sobering visit to the genocide museum in kigali which documents the atrocities of 1994 when roughly 1 million people were killed in just a few months. It basically involved 1 tribe trying to eradicate the other usually with machetes, many of which were children. The trouble as usual, began back in the early part of the century when europeans decided to study the africans, and determined that one of the tribes was "superior" and gave this minority tribe all the power, which resulted in anger and jealousy which over time caused a uprising of the majority inferior tribe and a series of propaganda campaigns against the minority tribe. It was quite reminiscient of the holocaust in how they used the media to create anger and suspicions throughout the people. It's just crazy, how this continues to happen. we are now back in uganda and will be heading to another safari park today for a walking safari. Then it's off to Jinja, uganda where I will contemplate rafting down the Nile. Scares the crap out of me, but you only live once, right? Heading out for now. more later.