Baby Ryan in Ethiopia!!!

HELLO EVERYONE!!!


It’s Baby Ryan and I’m writing my LAST blog from Africa cause I have to start heading home soon because I miss my Daddy Denis and while real animals are great they don’t let you hug them like you can with stuffed animals and I forgot my pacifier on this trip and my thumb is getting sore from sucking it all night instead of my paci!!


Last blog I talked all about eating with my hands here in Ethiopia and getting all messy which is lots of fun and I’ve been doing that lots since I wrote my last blog. I also learned that they make AVACADO JUICE here which looks really funny cause it’s slime green but it tastes neat and looks even better when you play with it!!I accidentally got some of the food in my hair the other day but it was okay cause I needed a bath anyway cause it’s really dusty and you get dirty lots.


I went to Gondor which is neat cause it has lots and lots and lots of castles which are super fun to explore.It’s like a maze with towers and secret passages and it’s like a GIANT fort!! I liked it lots and want to go play in more sometime! I also went to a place called Lalibela which is really high in the mountains and there are churches that are carved from the rock but the best part is that there are lots of places to play including a really really really dark tunnel that is scary except when you’re pretending you’re a dragon because dragons like caves and aren’t scared of anything, especially the dark!! I also got to ride all the way up a mountain on a mule. Her name was Testa which means happiness in Ethiopian but I think it should have meant speedy cause she always wanted to be first and would run ahead with me on her until we lost sight of everyone else but she was really smart cause she never lost her way and always knew how to get there! She liked to be petted behind her ears and on her neck and I talked to her and she was really soft and cuddly.


Of course, she reminded me of my soft and cuddly stuffed animals like Radar and Big Bear and Ralph and so I will be heading home soon to cuddle with them and give Jinxie a big hug but Daddy Denis will get the BIGGEST hug for sure!!!!! My plane stops in Paris on the way for a couple days which is okay cause there are LOTS of desserts there and Africa doesn’t have many desserts so I have to get chocolate for sure!!! Anyway, don’t forget to comment cause it will be really great to read them when I get home on April 1st!!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!

-Baby Ryan

Monkeys and Eating AB-style in AFRICA!!!

I’m still exploring Africa here and got to play with LOTS AND LOTS of monkeys while I was in Rwanda. I like the name Rwanda cause it sounds like baby talk but it isn’t and it’s fun to say and there are tons of monkeys here in Rwanda. The forest that I went into to find the monkeys was really steep and it was like an obstacle course to go through it with lots of vines and trees and the ground was like a slip-n-slide except super super super steep with lots of mud and flowers too and so I got super muddy but it was okay cause it was bound to happen with it being like that. The monkeys were fun and I have two favorites!! The chimpanzees were fun because they make really loud sounds and hooted and screamed and were wonderful. They watched me as they picked bugs out of each other’s fur on a branch and then the big one screamed and they all went out of the trees and marched really really close to me so they were almost a meter from me which was great!! The others that I liked were called colobus monkeys and they like to jump and swing and climb trees and are like acrobats from the circus except they don’ t live in the circus.


Right now I’m in Ethiopia and ate Ethiopian food lots and the great thing about that is that you can eat and make a mess and it’s okay cause EVERYONE does because in Ethiopia there are NO spoons and NO knives and NO forks and so you are SUPPOSED to eat with your hands!! It’s super fun!!!!!!!!!!! Every AB should go to eat Ethiopian food cause it’s super delicious and some of the things look like baby food and you eat with your hands!! I love it!!


I have to go to bed now because I’m going to a place in Ethiopia tomorrow morning that is called the Camelot of Ethiopia cause there are castles there and it doesn’t look like Africa but it is!! Don’t forget to comment on here cause I love seeing comments and reading them and writing back!!! HUGS!!!

Baby Ryan's animals in AFRICA!!!!!!

I'm still travelling in Africa with the animals and today I am in Tanzania and today I went to this place and got to have lots of fun seeing animals.  There were lots of monkeys running about and swinging from trees and one even ran into the bathroom and someone that was in there screamed and that's just ANOTHER reason why diapers are better than using the bathroom!!  If you wear diapers no monkeys will attack while you're on the toilet cause you don't use the toilet, right?  The monkeys were so much fun and I ran about with them and they made noises and I made noises back at them and it was great!!

Actually, so many of the animals here could definitely use diapers because they poop and go pee-pee everywhere and if it's an elephant or a rhino doing it there can be a big mess.  Of course, some of the animals would get mad and it could be bad if you tried to diaper them because they could charge or sit on you and rhinos have really sharp horns so I think that I'll let some really brave daddy have that job if he wants it.  Little boys like me should do dangerous things like that!!

Anyway, today I was exploring this place called Lake Manyara and found three lions asleep in a TREE!!  This was really exciting because it's one of the ONLY places where lions climb and live in trees lots of the time.  Of course, most lions don't do that and that's why Simba and Mufasa and mean Scar all lived on the ground but these lions like the trees and so I think they're acrobat lions!  Of course, Jinxie (Daddy Denis and Grumpy Uncle Jack's cat) isn't like these cats cause she doesn't like to climb things.  Maybe when I get home I can teach her and then she and I can go tree climbing together and then someday visit Africa and since she's a cat too she can introduce me to the lions and it will be fun.  I'll have to ask Daddy Denis if we can do that.

I have to go to sleep now cause it's late here and there are so many more things that are exciting to do tomorrow and the next tomorrow and the next tomorrow too!!

Oh, I almost forgot to ask!!!  What is your favoritest African animal? I think that mine is the girraffe cause they're really tall like a dinosaur and they have really neat designs on them and they run really fast and they are friendly and whenever I see them they usually walk closer (not like some of the animals that like to walk AWAY) and they also a few times let me get really close and they pose for photos and they's super super tall like taller than trees!!  Of course, my favoritest animal in Africa changes lots so tomorrow it might be different.  What's yours??