Ants in your pants…

There is a lot of ants in Uganda. All sorts and all sizes, from a couple of centimetres to just a millimeter or two. The big ones you really dont want to get inside your pants, because they bite! It hurts!! You usually find them in the forests when hiking and it is a very good idea to tuck your pants in your socks! The smaller ones you often find in you chapatti or in your matooke, then usually dead, or alive on your apple crumble with ice cream at one of the nicer restaurants… As I got last night.

After living here for quite a while, you get used to the ants. So Ingrid and I were just inspecting my cake close up and trying to get the ants off when two of the waitresses came over and wondered what was so funny about my dessert. So I told them about the ants, three of them on my cake. They also laughed, told me they are healthy (they eat bugs for protein…) and all of us are poking at my dessert to get them off I think we got them all and one of the waitresses tell me to not think about them because then I will not finish my cake.. And I didn’t dissapoint her and finished it off! Protein and all!

Life is pretty ‘rancho realxo’ in Entebbe, we stay at Elephant Village Resort just in the fringe of the little town. Nelson, the owner, is really nice and so are his staff. We are being spoiled with extra fruit for breakfast and he even want’s to have a BBQ for us on Saturday night because we are leaving on Sunday. Nice time! There is also a lot of monkeys playing in the garden at the hotel They are (needless to say) very cute and funny!

Went to the Wildlife Education Centre yesterday, it was ok, but nothing major. I guess after seeing all the animals close up in the wild, it is not the same to see them locked up. BUT we did see some Chimpanzees having a good time, from a distance it did look like they were 69ing… «Look at the cute monkeys kids!! They are playing.. Oh, hold on, they are.. Hey, kids, why dont we look at the lonely lion instead?!?!».

Today we have just been chilling by the pool to ensure our tan is nice and dark before going home to Norway! The pool at Victoria Lake View Hotel is highly recommendable, we even jumped from the tower (three metres, maybe do the five metre tomorrow..)

Only two more sleeps in Africa!!

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