Selfies with Lips, Ice, Ducks, and Axes

Finally, a successful posie-selfie! Here, we demonstrate our V-face beauty. The W hotel is mainly made for selfies, as Barry demonstrates here.

Jen and I thought this one was good until we realized that it looks like she's rubbing my belly, and it's never good to have your armpit showing.

I almost did this one right, except the sweater-waist makes my belly look huge. Helpful selfie-hint.

The Ice Bar is also made for selfies, but since I went last year, I had to make up new poses.

Lesser known is the Korean glowy beauty face mask selfie, which is tricky, because you have to keep your eyes closed.

ME is Korean, so she knows about these things, but I was more confused, because the instructions were in Chinese.

So instead, we moved on to duck selfies. Posing with a duck is very flattering.

Third place made for selfies: Axe Throwing bar.

They also had harpoons.

My amazingly aimed shot and left arm weird recoil. (Again, unflattering waist sweater).

I'm really good at sports, and aiming things at other things.

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Less Serious Animals of the Serengeti

Oh, hello there!

Barry is particularly proud of the picture below, given the timing plus horizon zebras.

I was infatuated with ostrich feet.

Check out the warthog's facial wattles! I just learnt that wattles are similar to caruncles and dewlaps, which are often meant purely to impress the ladies!

We had troubles taking some animals as seriously as others, including this crested crane, which has a red inflatable throat pouch - which you can imagine would come in handy.

Similarly-endowed are the brightly-coloured safari posers, seen here with culturally-appropriating braids, cameras to instaglam things they can't actually see, and soft, inflatable egos.

I'm pleased to learn that lions are as photogenic as I am.

Did you say photogenic?

Who needs wattles when you can accessorize with mud and parasite-eating birds?

And a skull so heavy no one can eat it.

Did you say heavy?

A reminder of why good dental hygiene is important!

Hippos mainly stay in the water to avoid overheating their sensitive pink bits.

Elephants, on the other hand, come to water so that I can watch them frolicking, ideally all day long.

Poor Demi, here, got her trunk caught in an evil snare, but luckily she's still healthy, years later!

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Serious Animals of the Serengeti

We gnu we'd like seeing the wildebeest migration. Without fancy BBC drone footage, it looks like this:

The zebras and wildebeests are old buddies, because symbiosis.

If you look longer, you can tell zebra apart by their butts.

They snuggle by resting their heads on each other's butts.

That makes the giraffes jealous.

Anyway, where there's large herds, there's kills.

It's not the prettiest thing, really.

This is as close as we saw to seeing a kill actually happen.

We did not see hearty feasts of hartebeest.

Mostly, the cats we saw were resting.

Including baby lions,

teenage lions,

and old lions.

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