While John was having the week he described below I was "suffering" on safari. South Luangwa is a great game park only about 4-5 hours away in Zambia. Our friend, Donna, was visiting from Temple and part of her whirlwird tour was to go on safari. We had a great time and had some definate game viewling highlights: 2 lionesses with cubs, a leopard with cubs and a recent kill right at the side of the road, and elephants coming right up to our dining room! We also saw lots of zebra, elephants, hippo and giraffe. We closed the experience with seeing 2 lionesses hunting!! Unfortunately they started chasing a cape buffalo and ended with him chasing them! Our guide said, "they have failed". This experience was made slightly more exciting by the fact that our vehicle was not running well and the guide could not turn it off! The vehicle ran well the first day but the first night it was having battery issues and we actually had to be pushed at one point (they use these spotlights to veiw animals at night and it was draining the battery)! All well and good when there is nothing around but not something you can repeat when you are 20 feet from hungry lions (literally!) I was having visions of a) lions jumping into the back of our open vehicle or b) the engine dying and us having to sit there for hours before it was safe to get out and push!
So those were the game viewing highlights. Mind you, we spent about 16 hours over 2 days in a land cruiser to see all that! Great, but Donna and I were in agreement that one day would have been adequate for us! Thankfully we were sitting on the back row of the truck so when everyone else was still enthralled with the birds and crocodiles we just talked!
This was the first time I had left Karis for more than a day so I was concerned about her and the death of Loveness was a huge unexpected stressor but I had no qualms in John's (and Mathilda's) abilities to take care of her so I just prayed for them and enjoyed the hours of uniterrupted sleep and naps at every possible opportunity! It was great!
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