OOPs sorry ...

Heck... where is the time flying too???

There I am making promises to continue the Safari stories and we are a week behind and you're missing out on all of this weeks stories !!!! gotta get typing faster or telling you more...

OK continuation of Safari - First morning !!! do you know how early the sun comes up try 4am !!! and the barking of the Baboons ... Kelsey slept through all that but we soon caught up other mornings ... Nan, the kids and I spent all day Saturday chatting, drinking (tea and coffee, girls !!!) Nan is also a crafter so we swapped ideas, reminisced about the past , planned for future it was lovely, so peaceful and totally relaxing. Niki decide to give us a fashion show with the gifts we took her ... she is just sooooo adorable ... Kelsey found himself an admirer in her and he ended up playing big brother at dinner time, helping her with her food and chatting to her ... she loved sitting on his knee playing with the cars !!!!

Old Friends: Nanushka and Me

New friends ... Kelsey, Russell and Bambi !!!

"Lolita Chiquita Gonzalez Chihuahua" the name we ended up giving Niki after her modelling stint!!!

Ben, Nan's hubby very kindly 'Braaied' (BBQ and it's a man thing, ugg FIRE) for us all on Saturday night, and we star gazed and listened to the sounds of all the animals ... the true sound of the African sky ... HEAVEN!!!

Sunday saw us all up early (again, not quite 4am, I woke at sunrise but just turned over and snoozed till about 7ish) It was a quick S.S.S and we were off out to Ouma and Oupi's for a Champagne Breakfast (it was Oupi's birthday, not that we needed and excuse of course). We were welcomed or sent off which ever way you want to look at it by a herd of giraffe at the front gate... sorry, no photos I stupidly put the camera in the boot of the car and as there are Wild Lions roaming around it is not a good idea to get out and fetch it !!! There were about 8 of them just meandering along the road, and guess what ... we didn't see any of them for the rest of the week !!!! Bloody typical!!!

We had a gorgeous breakfast ... then we dashed off to go on our Game Drive ... Nan's nephew Alex is completing his training at Entabeni and Nan pulled some strings, and as Alex needed some customers to practise on we were his volunteers .... for him to take us on a Game Drive !!!! I think Kelsey was in awe of this young mans knowledge of the bush veld and its occupants... and of course this helped him to be such a good guide ... he even managed to spot a 'Wolf Spider' at dusk ... and it's the same colour as the sand !!! We got see just about all the animals on the reserve, I didn't get great shots of the elephants as we only spotted them at dusk and they were around the water hole in between the bushes etc ... and I'm crap at night time shots !!!

Here are a few of my photos... I'll keep bombarding you with more later ... Gonna save the best till the very last !!! ;-)

BlouWildebeest - aka the poor mans buffalo !!!

A mummy Jackal trying her hardest to distract us from her cubs ...