Holidaze

This year we spent the holidaze hopping around South Africa. We did a couple nights in an amazing reserve called Phinda - outside of Krugar National Park. It was pretty magical - the rooms were completely glass (all 4 walls) and you were surrounded by nature. The reserve has no fences which means that the animals can come right up to your room. Fortunately we only had run ins with bright blue balled monkeys (which fascinated the kids) and impalas. We were really lucky on our drives and were able to see all of the big 5. (please email me what the big 5 are) Teddy even spotted the toughest one on one of the evening drives.
Once we were finished with the animals we drove 3.5 hours outside of Durban to go to a beachy kind of resort. The place was beautiful the service was painful. Highlight there was Henry was kidnapped out of his room by 2 of his older cousins at 11:30 on new years eve while the rest of us were fast asleep and partied like a true rock star and brought in the new year for the rest of us lame sleepy heads. Henry is making us very proud!
After Durban we caught a plane and headed to CapeTown where the highlight again would be Henry - but this time being chased by a baboon after Jeff insisted that he get closer to it for a better photo op! The baboon actually at one point had his leg but he was able to get away and Henry will be returning to the states with both his legs! If you are wondering where the photo of Henry and the baboon is Jeff dropped the camera once he realized the baboon was not in the mood for a photo.
We arrived back in Pretoria on Friday the 8th and I had some funky looking bites on my ankles that made my ankles look actually more like cankles. Well, as luck would have it I was on day 3 of African Tick Bite Fever which is hideous and ran through my body for the next 6 days. I was blessed with high fever, sweats, insane headaches, stiff neck, and disgusting lesions on my ankles (we have photos but I think I will spare you). I am sure Jeff would like all of you to know that after 4 days of this he did finally diagnose and start treatment. Today is actually the first day I am up and about even though the lesions are limiting my foot wear selection!