Pygmies and Canoes

While in Kribi, we got to take a little canoe trip into the jungle to see a pygmy village! Here are some photos of that little adventure:

Here we are getting ready...putting on our beautiful life jackets! Andrew is on a leash (It's really blurry for some reason...) He hated it!!!



Here we are in the canoe! Whew! That was creepy! It was very....African. :) The water kept coming in, so it had to be bailed every once in awhile...



Another canoe shot. Devin kept taking these shots over his shoulder, so we were never sure what he would get! This one missed Josh's head, but got the guy who was actually paddling. The guy sitting behind me is Antoine--our driver.



A view from the front of the canoe. Is that a big gaping hole in the front of the canoe, you might ask? Why, yes. Yes it is.



Here is another beautiful view of the river we were in. The other canoe is the other people in our group. So fun!! On the way home, we saw monkeys in the trees! Baby monkeys! :) I thought after I saw them, "Man, it's too bad that I didn't have the camera handy! That would have been a fun picture!" just to realize that it was sitting in my hand the whole time! Ha!!!



And here we are at the pygmy village! How different their lives are!

When we got there, the other lady we were with wanted a picture with these cute little pygmy ladies. So, she had her son and Claire go over and stand by them. Well, Claire wasn't too happy about that! As a matter of fact, the one lady in the blue tried to get Claire to sit on her lap, and Claire jumped down, yelled NO and hauled off and hit her! I felt really bad and apologized.



Andrew was very much at home here! He was running around and happy as could be! I missed the shot that I really wanted...he had climbed onto the bench with all the guys and sat right next to them. It was hilarious!



Andrew is at 'home--No insecurities here!

Here they are doing a dance for us. There's the lady in the blue that I mentioned earlier. She had TEN children, right here in this little place! No hospitals, no meds, no medical intervention, no sterile environment...just a lot of dirt and guts!



These are the guys playing the music. They had some sticks and a couple of drums...but they sure made use of them!!! It was loud!



They even got me up there to dance with them! They got Devin in there, too, but no one got his picture. I wonder why people always want to drag me up to dance with them??