So Wednesday night Ben contacted us with a lovely surprise, he said we could go across the road (yes literally) to the next reserve where they breed White Lions ... AND the best part they have just been getting 2 Cheetahs (my absolute favouritest) ... Well just look at these stunning photos ... I managed to take ONLY about 300 of the lions and about another 600 of the Cheetahs !!!! Not too many eh??? I could have just sat all night and watched the Cheetahs ... not that they did much, in fact 1 of them stayed well hidden in the bushes ... But it was great ...
The best ever - just look at this beautiful creature ...
Believe it or not but these lions carry the white gene ...
Look at the colour of this lioness' eyes - they are blue !!!
Here you have the pure white male Lion and Lioness with the other male Lion that also carries the white gene:
If you look very carefully you can just see this young Cheetahs eyes shining in the bush ... in the middle of the picture:
Sadly Thursday we had to say farewell to Ben, Nan, Russell & Nichola, and of course Ouma and Oupi... but we're gonna see them again in December so I can't wait for then ... Kelsey and I drove down to JHB to Kevin & Sandra's ... we picked mum up and went a did a bit of shopping ... Paul arrived early Friday morning so we stayed overnight at my brothers ... now on Thursday after the shopping (of course) the car started 'getting sick'!!! She seemed to have lost her 1st gear completely ... now that is no fun when you drive an automatic!!!
After much panicking and cursing we made it back to Kevin's but I wasn't too sure I was going to make it to the airport on Friday for Paul ... I contacted one of Paul's mates who I made arrangements with for us to take my car to a diesel mac who could look at it ASAP, cos the plan was pick up Paul at 11am then drive 6 hours back to DBN!!! That was the plan ... the diesel mac had NO IDEA what the problem was a thankfully Hyundai Boksburg came to my rescue ... seems my EGR valve is buggered !!! Hey who knows ... they cleaned it out for me, enough to get us home safely BUT said I needed to visit the DBN branch of Hyundai ASAP...
So we left JHB for a 6 hour drive to DBN at 4pm !!! LURVERLY ... By the time we got home (and let me tell you we drove for the last hour or so in thick fog) I was a nervous wreck ... TG June and Irena had saved us some dinner ... we all crashed into bed around 11.30pm ... I woke at about 2am and spent the rest of the night hugging the loo ... (No it was'nt June's cooking) seems there's been a severe 24hour bug going round and 1 of mum's friends had, had it (yes we met up with her for lunch on Thursday) and of course I had to catch it too.... You can imagine how it was for Paul having just arrived here with car trouble and then me as sick as a dog for the first 24hours that he's here too !!!!
AND can you believe it (again) I still have not emptied his case of all my goodies !!!! Just have'nt had the time since he arrived !!!! Paul wants to make sure we are set up and installed in our 'rented' house before he leaves on the 18th !!!! But I think he wants to do it all this first week !!!! Hence the reason I have not had time to blog, time to unpack all my goodies (Sharon I will write and thank you properly when I get a moment, pmsl !!!!) Talking of Sharon - ladies don't forget to enjoy yourselves at the Bolsover Craft Club this Saturday ... I will be thinking about you all when I'm sitting at Shongweni Market !!!
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