MacBook Down, but all other systems go....

Hillary has still been unable to get a post for the blog with current communication issues. She hopes to have them resolved within the next couple of days. So instead Dad (me) will be posting updates until that is settled. So I apologize in advance. She is doing fantastic and already has gotten settled down this weekend with her crew at Legends.

Pete (whom she borrowed his computer to Skype with her mom) is her immediate boss, best I can tell. Apparently, he is English and as you probably know Hillary, she is enchanted by the British accent. (She once said "my dad said I could be anything I choose to be...I choose to be British). So when she recants the stories from Pete, it is in her best brogue. (Ok, I know brogue is mostly associated with Scots, but I was going for aliteration...deal with it.) Hilarious. She makes me laugh.
Arrie(sp?) who is apparently very impressive, is the man who knows all. He is the big boss and is running the entire game area. Hillary will give you details, but I am already impressed.

Today was her official day of work. She worked the fence lines, helped fix a water trough, fed and cared for a variety of animals from lizards (bearded dragons who mistook her finger polish for a cricket), to water buffalo and giraffe. Too cool. She has gotten to meet the rescued lions that Arrie is rehabilitating for release into the wild. That is the ultimate objective, release into the wild. Oh yeah, and she ran across a lot of vlakvark....he new favorite word...look it up, it is Afrikaans. She is tired, but it seems to be all that she was hoping for and more.

Over the weekend, Hillary had gotten settled into her house and acclimated to the area. She went on a game drive and came upon a pride of Lions a few yards from her (not scary she said) and Rhino with her calf(?)(scary, with mom on full alert). She also watched Rugby match at some sort of pub where the Springboks took on England. (Reminder: Pete is English...ha). She met a woman from Brandon Florida...odd. She has made several new friends, which is odd because Hillary struggles with talking to people. (Note: that was sarcasm).

Oh, one last note on the team back in Johannesburg. She simply loves Joanne and her family. Her fiance' Chris is very protective and told her he was her South African dad, for which I am very grateful. Thanks much to Joanne, Chris and Cristo. The big news is that she is moving already. She leaves at 7am tomorrow (Tues) to go to work on a special project. If it all works out, it should  be "best thing ever". Exciting. More to come on that and Hill will have to update you on it as it is appropriate. Very cool. Hillary will do a much better job of the details than I. Know this, she is well and she already has a lifetime of stories is less than a week. Thanks Uncle Blake. More to come. We are all looking forward to the pictures.