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Jesse and Tiffany Shanks: Safari & Christmas

As you can imagine, we've been having a great time with my parents. A day after arriving from picking them up in Accra, we traveled to northern Benin to Pendjari Wildlife Park for a safari. That was quite an amazing experience. If you'd like to see the pictures, you can view them on my Facebook account (this works even if you don't use Facebook).

Between the drive to Accra and back, and the safari trip, we estimated that we spent 50 to 60 hours in a vehicle in one week's time! Most of that was on bumpy unpaved roads by the way. Needless to say, we were ready for a break. We spent a very relaxing Christmas together, lounging around the house and spending time together. That evening we had a special Christmas party for the people who work at our house. We got each of them and their family members a gift, which was likely the only gift they received for Christmas. They loved the spaghetti Tiffany made, and they especially liked the Coke floats for desert. I asked them, and they said they had never tried putting ice cream in a soda before.

I set up a camera on Christmas morning and did a time lapse video that condenses about 3 hours into one minute.

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