Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Zimbabwe week 8

Scooby is about 2 months old now, still a cute little puppy, but about twice as big as when we got him. Rasta has moved house up the road (to the new house) as he had 3 strikes with the chickens and struck out! We thought his 4th attempt might end up with a dead chicken, so we took him up to the new house that has no chickens for him to catch. We still go visit him every day :)Michelle is pulling a cute face in this pic. I've now taught her to spin around in circles until she falls down, then she gets back up and does it again - she loves it!!!

bats outside the house
scooby

rasta
scooby
scooby giving me a kiss
Michelle
David and the benz

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Week 7 Mteri Lodge

We stayed at Mteri Safari Lodges for 2 nights over Easter. The accomodation was beautiful, with a thatched roof and outside shower. We saw lots of animals - giraffes, impala's, elands, kudu, worthog, jackal, zebra and birds. Also there is a leopard, buffalo and crocodiles, but we didn't see them - kinda happy about that too!!!We went on a safari drive in the safari car around the property - very exciting! We got very close to the animals and took some great pics :)

Mteri Sign
hut
hut
inside hut

inside hut
shower
pool and dam


game car
giraffe
me and the giraffes

zebra


thorns
zebra
impala
elan
dam wall



dam
dam side
elan
jackal
worthog






Saturday, April 7, 2007

Zimbabwe week 6

These pics were taken on Wednesday when some of the cousins had finished school for the term and returned home from boarding school. It was a great day of footy, soccer and cricket!

Also this week we had a rat episode hehe It was in the loungeroom and involved me standing on the chair while Gracious (approx 15y.o) and Plavian (approx 8 y.o) chasing it around the room and finally killing it with a broom - which snapped in half after a few hits hehehe

boys

family
Gladys and Melody
Gladys and Melody

Lenard and Joe

Michelle and me Joe and me
Taps and David

Uncle

It was approx 2 hrs drive from our house to Great Zimbabwe Ruins in the Mercedes Benz with Joseph behind the wheel - dodging stray cows and people on the roads.Great scenery along the way, the only thing that remotely resembles the drive is the Grampians.When we got to Great Zimbabwe, they wouldn't let me enter as I didn't have US$ or rand, so we headed off to Masvingo to get some drinks. There we found someone selling Rand, so we bought some - 100 Rand for Z$240,000. My entry fee into Great Zim - Joe and his brother, David were only charged Z$20,000 each!!!! hehe So I made sure we took our money's worth of photos!We had a great time, climbed up the big hill and went through all the ruins - there was a busload of army guys there too for the day.

































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