Back to school!
Classes start tomorrow for the 2011-2012 academic year- my 10th year at Miami! I had a pretty busy summer, teaching GEO 121 during the early summer session (ended late June), then taking a 3-week trip to Kenya to visit family and national parks. We stayed in Machakos , and visited Lake Nakuru National Park , Aberdare National Park, Mombasa , Tsavo West National Park , Nairobi, and even crossed the equator. I really enjoyed our time there and we all wished for another week when it was time to come home- next time! (click the photos to enlarge)
My daughter in the Indian Ocean at Bamburi Beach, Mombasa.
Zebras at Lake Nakuru National Park (taken by my husband)
Chania Falls, Thika
Me at our hotel in Mombasa
Since getting home, things have been quieter, though I've been catching up with research work and getting ready for classes for the last few weeks. The worst thing about getting home has been the heat. We arrived in the middle of the heat wave in late July- which was a re