August 27, 2011
Enjoyed a nice relaxing morning snuggled up to my very own gorilla. I’m lucky like that. Ate breakfast at the lodge and then headed back to our rooms to shower and pack up.
Back on the road and headed to Kigali. This time we were on the right road and knew what time it was. The drive was pretty uneventful. A little road construction changed the pace of the drive. We checked back into Hotel des Mille Collines and ate lunch.
After lunch we ventured to the Genocide memorial. Something we wanted to do because neither of us really knew what happened. I think we both left more confused then when we went. While the memorial was well done and served the purpose to honor all of the slain victims buried in mass graves on sight, I felt like there was information missing. The biggest thing I got out of it was that we needed to buy a book on the genocide and read more about it. There was an exhibit on slain children that struck a cord with me. It was really hard to walk through the exhibit and see pictures of all the babies brutally murdered after losing Nora. Really pissed me off. What kind of crazy person murders a baby?
Left the memorial on a hunt to find a Rwandan mask for our mask wall. Everywhere we go, we buy a mask. One day, we will have a giant wall of masks from around the world. We found one with a white face and legs that Liam found amusing.
Back to the hotel, we ate dinner and started hunting for a dryer for our house in Alaska. The one that is there kept going out. Figured out that it was going to take two weeks for it to get there if we bought it online. Something to deal with via phone tomorrow. Time for bed because we have to be at the border at 0800 to meet our security detail to avoid interactions with bandits as we cross back into Tanzania.
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