On Thanksgiving day we headed to a reserve about 1.5 hours from out house. After lots of pot holes and unpaved roads we arrived at yet another beautiful game reserve. This one only had 6 rooms/huts and we were lucky enough to have the entire place to ourselves for the first 2 nights!
The people at the hotel were so incredibly kind they even made a Thanksgiving dinner for us - complete with homemade apple crisp - all served outside next to a beautiful bonfire.
The kids and I are getting a bit jaded with the safaris - hmmm another rhino... another giraffe.... oh, look a wildebeest. Henry has begun to take a book along and we have to nudge when we have an animal sighting, Anna now brings a coloring book, Teddy always the enthusiast is continuing to be the star and sits up front with the bush guide armed with his binoculars and an endless smile! As all of us climbed into the jeep for our afternoon ride hoping for a leopard sighting we were pleasantly surprised when we got to the waterhole and made a sudden stop - there was an African python (about 4 feet long) just shy of the tires of our car. We stopped checked it out and noticed a couple pairs of eyes swimming close to the edge of the watering hole. No, it wasn't the rhinos but it was 5 crocodiles looking for a snack! We were lucky enough to have front row seats to snack time for the crocs! After the kill which was sudden, fierce and a bit scary - Henry and Teddy were a bit quiet (perhaps processing what they just witnessed) but Anna exclaimed," that was cool can we see that again!" Quite a proud moment for Jeff and I, we are not raising a wimpy girl. The photos below show the kill as best as I could capture. They moved incredibly fast and my reflexes are not what they used to be.
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