Safari, Part 2

Lion! After driving around for like 2 hours, we finally saw a lion.

We also saw a baby rhino!

Other animals we saw included elephants, jackals, birds, warthogs, croccodile, hippos, wildebeast, springbok, blesbok, urdu or kurdu or whatever they’re called and monkeys!  We had great animal sightings, delicious food (yummy stir fry and desserts), and a nice time relaxing before saying good-bye.

Safari Time

I love giraffe!  They are one of my favorite African animals (I’m bad at picking favorites). Do you have a favorite African animal or animal?

p.s. come back tomorrow for some more pictures and thoughts about Safari with my parents.

Here We Come

Safari time!  I am astounded at how fast time has gone.  We leave for Safari tomorrow morning and then my parents fly out on Sunday.  Yikes!  See you after the weekend!

My mom and Gugu at Hope House 🙂

Swazi in Bullets

• Painted the Community Center
• Cleared a man’s yard and created a garden area
• Cleared yards on the Upper Houses (raked leaves, raked pine needles, collected rocks, dug drainage trenches)
• Painted two Chacaranda (sp?) houses
• visited ABC ministries (adorable little kids!!!)
• Ate dinner and hung out at the Welcome Center (where the kids go before they are placed in a home) and at a Chacaranda house
• Played card games (fill or bust, 13, phase 10, rummy, billionaire)
• Made lots of fires in the fire place
• Went to the Orion (Mongo’s for dinner, delicious pizza, milkshakes, swimming, sauna, car adventure to find some waterfalls…didn’t get to see  them, dessert!, Kelly’s birthday!)
• Ate a ton of pb & honey since the jelly did not taste good
• Songs: Where You Are by Marc Broussard, Airplane Song by Stephen Speaks, On a Night Like This by Dave Barnes
• Played with ABC kids on an afternoon off
• Making oatmeal in the morning and getting up early and soaking in time with Him
• Swimming
• Going to a nearby village and wearing traditional dress and dancing
• Climbing the tallest mountain in Swazi
• Taking fun jumping photos
• Going on Safari
• Camping outside
• Seeing a creepy creepy creepy python…yuck!
• Seeing rhinos, elephants, lions, and hippos!
• Long car rides with happy, summery music