courage.. it couldn't have come at a worse time

Hey team. I'm short on time, so just a quick post here. We got back from the safari yesterday. It was awesome. The national parks here are beautiful. We saw lots of animals: rhino, giraffes (btw, these must be the most ridiculous looking creatures on the planet, eh? They don't make any sense... can you imagine if you have never seen one, and then came accross it? I would think we were being invaded by aliens), leopards, lions, etc, etc. we will post more about this later. Our photography team (ie, tibi and mira) took several gigs worth of pics. They have been doing an awesome job. hopefully we will post some soon. ok, today we start our trek. It is 7 days long. For those of you doing some arithmetic at home, you should hear from us on the 13th, and hopefully not before then. If you don't hear from us on that day, don't worry too much, this is Africa: shit takes time. We've been talking to some people who have climbed kili, and the crux of the problem is on summit day. We start at ~ 1am, climb ~ 5,000 feet to the summit (19,341 feet), then do a long descent (not all the way to the bottom, but we cover some ground). I don't have the all the numbers with me, but it is fair to say that it will be a, uh, full day. hopefully the mountain will be kind to us. I trust you all are well, talk to you soon. PS: Brian, mira says hi :)