Insects and Lions

Sometime last night I got bit by some mysterious insect on my feet. I had two bites on my left foot and one on my right. The bites were a little bit itchy, but I went to bed without difficulty. This morning, however, I woke up and, as I got out of bed, I noticed that my feet looked a bit bigger than usual. After putting on my contacts and attempting to move my feet I realized they were definitely swollen and the area around the bug bites was red. My feet were so swollen in fact that it hurt to put my shoes on. At dinner my feet weren't quite as big and didn't hurt, but they were still noticeable swollen and red. Luckily there are nursing majors on the trip with us and they are seniors so they're pretty much legit nurses. One of them checked out my feet and said it wasn't dangerous and that it's an allergic reaction. The swelling has gone down, but I'm hoping my feet are fully back to normal when I wake up tomorrow morning.

Enough talk about my feet. We went to a lion park today. The story behind the lion park is that it is basically a huge park were there's a pride of wild lions. There's a big gate, and once you cross it you are in lion country. The last group that went to this park experienced the lions attacking the car. They full on jumped on top of the vehicle and clawed the back of it. You have to take special cars inside, of course, and when we got there we found out we didn't have the appropriate cars so we ended up not driving in. Sad day, but it's ok because we were able to walk up to the fence and we saw lions up close. At first they were a good 30 feet away, but as soon as they saw us they slowly walked towards us in the crouched position as if ready to attack. When they got to the gate they walked back and forth keeping an eye on us. If any of us got close to the fence or turned our back to the fence they would pounce up and try to stick their paws through the fence. It was so cool! That is until we realized they weren't zoo animals, they were wild. We got some good pics, but I'm kind of glad we didn't drive through because can you imagine your car breaking down in the middle of a lion pride or them actually breaking a window?