DAY #15

This morning we woke up to find the lion's paw prints. According to our guides a hyena had come within two feet of Zed and Tommy's tent. ALSO a hippo walked through the middle of our tents really early in the morning. Claude said she saw the hippo and was flipping out but was a good girl and stayed silent. We packed Sally up and started off to the last round of safariing. Sally decided that she was going to get stuck in the sand about 5 times today. At first it was funny but after the third time we were all beat pushing her while the guide floored it.




Pushing Sally after I took a digger in the sand

The thrill of today was seeing an amazing group of elephants. It started by seeing one elephant playing in the water so we stopped to watch. Then through the trees on the other side of us came another elephant, then another, then another. Duraid was counting and stopped at 37 but there were still more coming out of the trees. We just hung out, sitting on the roof of the truck (on the steamy metal) and just watched the elephants. We did get a bit scared when a group of three elephants (one was a baby) started to angle their path towards us. The guides told us to be quiet and still and to be prepared in case he needed to try to floor it away from the approaching elephants. We weren't too certain about that plan because of Sally's tendency to get stuck in the sand and stall out. But all went well and we got a great heart pounding and closeup view.













After a bunch of hours driving/bumping along in the reserve seeing a bunch of our animal friends we headed back to the Audi Camp headquarters. We checked in for the night, our lodging being another tent...but this one was way fancier! Our tent was named "Velvet Raisin". We had a little porch area, a big door, room to stand in the tent and cots!!









I love the Audi Camp. People just traveling around stop and rent a tent. There are really cool outdoor showers made of bamboo. I laughed hysterically when I walked in for the first time and heard Claude and Duraid talking and laughing because they were showering in stalls next to each other and were being silly throwing a bar of soap back and forth over the bamboo wall. We would also hear screams from people who had very little hot water. I think Duraid and Claude were hogging it...lol! It was so amazing showering and looking up at the stars and moon...it was like paradise.





After showering we all went for drinks at the bar. Z decided to be all cool and slide up to the bar and hop on a stool to order a bottle of wine. But instead he somehow slid into the stool at a weird angle, bounced off and landed on his ass. SO funny!!! Once again our group bonded with a night of drinking and laughing. I love my team!!!!

NOTE: I'm not finished with this entry yet...and I have a whole bunch more to write about. So stay tuned for my trip to Victoria Falls in Zambia and Zimbabwe!