Queen Elizabeth National Park

The film crew decided to go into Queen Elizabeth National Park and film the wildlife as a creative adjunct to their episode on Matrix involvement in Uganda. Chug was the only documentary character invited to go, as a focal point for the wildlife interlude. Max and I decided to tag along as well, since neither of us had ever been to Queen Elizabeth National Park. I had been on a few game drives before, in Kenya and South Africa, and had seen the whole gamut of animals – elephants, giraffes, crocodiles, rhinoceros, etc. However, I had never seen lions in their natural habitat, and that was my one goal for this drive. Queen Elizabeth National Park had lions, and I wanted to see them. I asked the religious people to pray for me, just to cover my bases. And what do you know? Hardly 30 minutes after entering the park, we saw a whole pride lions! I was extremely excited, and took about a hundred photos (just of the lions). My trip was complete, and the day had just begun! We had brunch at the hotel inside the park, sitting on the veranda overlooking the lake. The view was absolutely breathtaking. We just ate, chatted, relaxed, and had a wonderfully enjoyable time at the hotel, until it was time for our river cruise. We sighted many other animals during the cruise, and the crew took a lot of footage of the animals along the river shores. For the first time since returning to Uganda, I felt like a tourist again, which was not a bad feeling at all.