Saturday night was a night I will never forget! As I was getting ready for the Brie (cookout) at Laura’s house I was stopped dead in my tracks to the sound of lions roaring so loud, I thought the guys two doors down were blasting one of their national geographic movies, so I ignored it in disbelief. When I headed outside to use the phone I heard it again and knew it wasn’t coming from any speakers. I saw Ben walk by and asked him if that was seriously real? He said yes! We wasted no time to get down to the fence to witness this ASAP. I couldn’t believe how loud it was, a lions roar can be heard up to 5 miles away! So we thought they were right outside our doorstep. We ran by Sean’s room real quick to ask him if he heard the lions, he replied yes and told us we could go down to the fence line as long as we were careful. As we stupidly ran down to the area where we thought the lions were, we were surprised to see 4 people already there sitting down a few feet from the fence. Right in front of them on the other side of the fence one of the guides that works here was in his jeep shining a bright light around the area where they heard the lions. As we starred at every inch the light was hitting in anticipation, we were surprised and disappointed to see nothing. The guide decided to drive off and look in a different area, leaving us behind alone on the ground, in the dark, which I was not too comfortable with, because now we were out in the open with no protection. As we sat quietly our minds started to play tricks on us so we thought. Every now and then we would hear branches break and footprints in the grass, we couldn’t even see 5 feet in front of our faces, so knowing a lion could be stalking us or standing right in front of us made me very uneasy. Lions have excellent night vision and their confidence doubles as soon as the sun goes down so we were taking a big risk. Just when we thought the lions had left the area we were suddenly startled by the roar of a lion, followed by another, followed by another. The sound was so loud you had to cover your ears and when the German girls heard this they all scooted back a few feet and were tempted to run, until I told them “Do Not Move or Run! “ The lions were literally right in front of us and all I could think was how stupid I was to get this close and what it would be like to be eaten by one of these giants! My heart was beating so hard and so fast, just thinking how I would possibly escape? The roars were so intense I felt the growl and rumbling vibrating inside my chest. What was going on was early that day there was a buffalo kill and on top of that there were 2 male lions trying to take over a pride from another group of males, so the atmosphere was an intense place to be already without us there. When the lions stopped roaring we all decided it was time to get the hell out of there. So we all stood up at the same time and walked backwards (because you never want to turn your back on a lion) and step by step moved further and further away from these ghosts in the darkness. I felt so foolish to have gotten that close, and will never do that again! For the time being J
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