Its not a tumor, or it IS the Masai Giraffe

We saw our very first giraffes yesterday. It was very very exciting. We were coming home from a morning of fairly frustrating work since our contact who is supposed to be alerting health clinics and such as to our presence and arrival dates has been shirking a bit despite being paid a little too handsomely.
But anyhow, we were crsuiing in our safari van when penninah or sennal cried out-giraffe!
Now they personally couldnt care less since they lives with these grand creatures everyday, but their enthusiams to show us is greatly appreciated. penninah made charlie stop the van so we could get out an take pictures. snacking nearby the giraffes was also a pack (herd? posse? gang?) of zebras. Our cameras couldnt get shots from where we were so off into the fields we went to get as close as possible without scaring them away. We took some pictures and ran around in the field quite happily before piling back into the van.
Not able to get close enough to see them well everyone was trying to describe the differneces between the masai giraffe and the reticulated giraffe. Then we were fortunate to see four more, right along the side of the road. We stopped again and Paul declred that the difference is thatt they look like they are covered with cancer.