Sept.2 – We walked up the five floors of the hotel to “The Hut.”

It is the restaurant that sits over looking the pool, which isn’t heated, by the way. The restaurant is open to the night air and the weather is perfect.

A slow cool breeze is wafting in with the unfamiliar smell of strange flowers and grass. Traffic can be heard in the far distance. Lights shine on the highway as workers try to find their way home.

We ordered from the large menu featuring food from many lands. We decided on Indian food. It’s our favorite when traveling abroad.

The food was the best Indian food we have had anywhere in the world.

We still haven’t met all of our traveling companions. More are coming in tonight.

We leave tomorrow for a museum and then for the long drive up into the mountains and the gorillas. We will be a group of seven plus the guide and driver.

We’ve have had a few days rest and a few days to get used to the time change and just relax. We have finally made contact with our guide. It was a little unusual to be left on our own, but all seems well now for the moment. The hotel staff seemed to know little about our plans. This has never happened before on any of our group tours.

Traveling often reveals flaws in the best of systems. But we are all here and accounted for so on we go.

The weather has been perfect. It can rain all night as far as I am concerned. I love the thunder and the rain. We live in California which is a desert so hearing rain and thunder is a nice change.