The day I met Angelina Jolie

I spent the weekend taking care of a sick two year old and now I am sick. I am hoping when she gets up today she will be feeling better. I doubt it since it is more than an hour later than she usually gets up. I feel bad that I can take cold medicine and she cannot, due to her food allergies. Next week I have finals and I procrastinated everything to the point that I am overwhelmed, with a cold. Next week I start my new class in computers and end my history class. Jeff hasn't made a decision yet, he says he is 50-50. He has until the 31st to make the decision so I will keep ya'll posted.

As a diversion to all my woes, I thought I would write again about Kenya. Our trip to Kenya was more than three years ago, but a bit more exciting than telling you about my day today.

We woke up on the third morning in Kenya (you can read about our first morning here) a bit tired from all the sleep we missed getting to Kenya. It usually takes me a couple of days to actually feel the effects of staying up all night, as we had getting from our house to our first resort. On our Safari we would get up in the morning have breakfast, drive about five hours to the next location, eat lunch and then go on a safari at the next location. On the third morning we were at our second location about to eat breakfast and go to the next location. Here we were at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. This resort was surrounded by a big fence, each room was a separate bungalow, there was even a swimming pool.

Outside the gates of the resort there was an enormous watering hole with thousands of animals, as far as the eye could see. There were even hippos, my favorite. Beyond the watering hole and the green which surrounds it the landscape was very desolate. The earth was a red clay, a few Joshua trees were around but otherwise it was pretty barren. This is the location where Survivor Africa was filmed and the location of Tomb Raider II. In fact they were filming Tomb Raider II on the very day we were there. So if you ever watch that movie, at the very end when they are in Africa, I was there that day.

After the three of us managed our showers and packing up our stuff. Showers were hard due to the water was either too hot or too cold and it alternated back and forth. Our room was enormous, our beds were draped with mosquito netting. It was lovely but being tired and cranky, running late and still needing breakfast the three of us were bickering our way from the bungalow to the main building. We were supposed to drop off our luggage out front so our driver could pack up the vehicle and we could hit the road immediately after breakfast. When we got to the luggage drop off site I noticed Mandy did not have her hat. Mandy and I have the fairest skin you can imagine and being 2 KM south of the Equator in October I tried to keep up with sunscreen and hats. Mandy couldn't remember where her hat was so we started looking through her suitcase and couldn't find it. I gave her our room key and she went back to search the room.

Meanwhile, Jeff and I were bickering about something, each of us had a suitcase open, rifling through the contents. Just then Angelina Jolie walked past us. She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Much more beautiful in person. She had on no makeup, she was wearing her costume from Tomb Raider II, and she said good morning to us. Jeff says she looked in his eyes and said good morning to him. Must have heard is southern accent, as she was in the middle of divorcing Billy Bob at the time. So there we were acting like hillbillies on our safari and we met Angelina Jolie. Mandy however never got the chance to meet her.

I guess I better do my homework now. Unless you want to tell me a story of meeting a celebrity, I would much rather read that than my homework.