Isn't Africa supposed to be hot?

Day 3  at the C.A.R.E center and also the third day of rain, mud and freezing weather! I am definitely wishing I had some warmer clothes because the combination of being muddy, wet from the rain, being peed on and 47 degree weather makes for a very cold Courtney! Besides the weather it is absolutely wonderful here, think camp but with baboons everywhere! 

The days here start at 6:30 where you wake up, pull yourself out of your warm bed and begin to make bottles (56 to be exact) for the babies small enough to need bottles. Then you bring the babies from their sleeping room to their play room where they are until 5:00pm. Between now and then your time is spent monitoring the other baboons around the center (around 400) to make sure they look happy and healthy, preparing food, making warm bottles, washing those bottles, playing and caring for the babies, and trying to grab a meal here and there. By the end of the day we are all pretty wiped! A couple of the babies, too small to stay with the others are brought into the house and sleep with surrogate moms and provide us with entertainment in the evening.

The good news is I have internet...the bad news is the internet barely works enough to do even the most basic of tasks (aka checking my email which I cannot do) but at least it is something and was a surprise :) I'm trying to post some pictures but they might have to come all at the end.