Recap

Don't know why I had not written any posts for a while. Honestly, with both cars broken and no leadership things were pretty slow. There are a couple of cool things to recap though:

• We took a most awesome boat ride down the Chobe River. I think it made this last awful week wort it. We went in the evening and all of the animals were coming down to the river's edge to drink for the night. My favorite was the baby elephant. HHe could not yet use his trunk so he just swung it aroud like crazy. It was funny. The guide said that he thought it was only a month old. There were tons of animals including: cape buffalo, impala, crocs, kudu, water monitors, elephants, and cool birds. Oh, also we saw the elephant herds swimming across the river. So strange I never even thought about elephants swimming.
• Shopping, think I have gifts for almost everyone now
• We found the best coffee place. It had been so long since I had anything besides instant.
• Baboon wars (but more on that in a moment)
• One thing that I have not gotten used to is the human / wildlife interactions. Warthogs, elephants, and baboons just walk down the middle of the road and no one seems to notice them. Even in our lodge there are no lawn mowers just warthogs eating the grass. Maybe I should take one home so there is no need to ever mow again.
• Mongoose!
• Meerkat!
• Warthhog with a broken leg was a bit sad. People just ignored it walking down the road gues they have more important things to worry about
• Jing.....where do I begin. Dude want to eat all of the animals. Everytime we see a baboon or lion he says he wants to cook it. Additionally he wants to wrestle it to the ground and kill it with his bare hands. It is so strange. There are eleborate stories for how he is going to kill and cook them. My favoraite involves a taxi cab, Jing, a lion, and lo mien noodles.
• Poor Jessica. This has not been her week to exercise. Yesterday (6-13-10) she went for a power walk up the large hill towards the Kasane airport. Halfway up a car waves here down, she later said she almost did not stop becuase she was alone, but turns out there was a pack of lions on the side of the road at the top of the hill. Then today she wanted to go for a run. I have veen going with her but today I got lazy. She left camp and started off. 2 seconds after she leaves the guard comes over and says that we cannot leave campe because they just spotted a leopard near the lodge. Well Jessica was gone, so we all (including the guard) ran after her because she was running right for the area where the animal was. Poor girl, don;t think she will exercise much more here.
• Caroline and Tim arrived!
• Saw a baby giraffe in Chobe National Park
• Jessica, Jing, Kalanie, and myself are no longer speaking to Eric. Great way to get work done.

I am sure there are more cool things I just cannot think now. It is getting late.

Peace Everyone.