Hail for Hailey

(Dec. 13, 2008 - late again)

Brrrr!
Have you ever been to a dessert before? Even if you haven’t been to a desert you probably still know that when I’m writing about a trip to camp out in the desert I shouldn’t start it out with brrr. The first day we rode our camels (and also the last) we made three stops:
1. our lunch spot (Camel Poop Ave.)
2. “the village”
3. the place where we had dinner and slept

When I got on my camel it was sitting down on its knees. It got up really fast and leaned back so I had to hold on really tight! I had to get used to it and how it walked: Both left legs, both right legs, both left legs, both right legs, and that went on for a really long time. When it stepped with its right legs I leaned to the left to balance but then it stepped with its left legs and I went way over to the right!

My camel was named "Ms. India" because five years ago she won first prize at a camel festival. We're not sure if it was a camel beauty show or a race. Our guides spoke very good English, but we still didn't understand everything they said. Sloan named his camel Cam-Cam which at first I thought was weird but now it sounds cute!

We got to Camel Poop Ave. and the people who went with us -the camel owners- made us lunch. One man tied up the camels front legs so they couldn’t go far. Mommy’s camel, Mehendra, didn’t even try to go far. He just found one plant and stayed with it until he was ready for another one. We ate lunch and then me and Sloan played with HUGE beetles. Sloan found a stick and picked a beetle up with the stick and threw it. We actually named some of the beetles: Bob and Bobette.

Back on the camels. While one camel was sitting ready to go and waiting for someone to get on its' back it pooped and just sat in the poop.

We took off to go see the camel drivers' village. Their children were there and they just stared at us until mommy started patting and clapping and snapping so the children did too. Somehow we got into the subject of school and mommy wanted to see one of the older kids’ school books. He showed us his reading and there was a story in it that went something like this: One day I was going to the grocery store with my mom and a car hit a lady and she died. I thought that was a little strange!

The camel people were showing us their concrete houses. I thought they were really short and daddy would bump his head if he went in one! The kids followed us around the village, two of them trying to pull our hair. That was really annoying. It was time to go but just when we were about to leave, a couple from Holland arrived. We had to wait for them to see everything then we got back on the camels.

We finally got to our camping site. It was almost nighttime. Me and Sloan ran all over the sand dunes. We jumped off the little ones and rolled down them too. After a little while, Sloan was ready to take on the big sand dunes. First Sloan rolled down the biggest one and then he wanted to jump down from another big one. I told him he shouldn’t but he wouldn’t listen. So he landed on his head and got a headache.

We then played a little, and everyone had dinner around the fire. I helped make chapattis for dinner. The adults stayed up and sang around a campfire while Sloan and I went to sleep in our tent.

I woke up really early and looked outside, the couple from Holland was standing outside in the lightning and rain!

Then it started to hail!!

And of course, our little tent was leaking all over us. This was not good or normal.

They called off the second day of our camel safari. No wonder. I was so excited when the jeep finally came to pick us up. I felt bad for the camels though.

The hotel was really warm after being in wet clothes all morning.

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Hailey

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