Another Good Day!

The little guy is doing much better. No more diarrhea so far. We were all discussing and came to the conclusion that it was probably a bacterial infection. Poor guy. Yesterday when he woke up, he was in such a great mood. Me started running around and playing. It was soooo cute. He was pushing his ball around with his head. Really was feeling much better. Even though I had the night shift, I stayed with Yolandi, an Employee of Arrie's. We had a great afternoon talking about yummy sweets. They don't have reese's here...wow! haha

Side note-here they have long lived milk. So in the stores, their milk sits on the shelves and it doesn't have to refrigerated until its open......isnt that weird? haha Alana and I talk about it all the time how weird it is, but it taste good, so no complaints. We just were a little apprehensive to try it at first. Also at the stores the eggs sit on the shelves as well. Isn't that crazy! South Africans are seriously addicted to their meat. Edwin, Arrie's nephew, walks up eating packaged bologna! They have dried meat that are a popular snack. I would put the name of the snacks...but spelling them is quite difficult, well one is biltong.

Back on track now. Rhino is doing much better, getting into mischief. Wants to get into the snake enclosure to get the sand in there, chews on the shade cloth, just wants to put everything in his mouth. Typical baby.

Yesterday, after I left, I went to the training school with Alana. The training school, don't know if I clarified, is a school where people can come and learn about the environment or learn to become a ranger to take people on game drives. It is a really cool place. Really great people. The students are great and of course JP is fantastic. He takes good care of Alana as well as myself, even though I am not staying there. Always giving us yummy chocolates and snacks and making sure we are well fed and comfortable. He is running it and doing a great job. You can tell he cares for the students. He loves to joke around but is serious when it comes to school work. Well we went on another game drive. It was a lot colder than the other night, but worth it. We came upon these subadult lions. They were just hanging out. One was chewing on a warthog leg, which later became a toy. One would set it down and the another would grab it and run, the others chasing. They were too young to hunt, but were in training. They were practicing on each other. Crouching down and sneaking up on each other, then pouncing. It was amazing to watch. Then we continued on and came up onto the 3 adult females and the huge male making his way over to them. We sat and watched them. JP said that usually the male lion is boisterous at that time of night and was guessing they were planning a hunt. Lions are pretty fast, run about 95 kph, but only in short spurts. So they rest around until it is time to hunt. While they were resting, we see the White Rhino bull making his rounds and marking his territory. He spots the lions and charges at them. Running them all off. What a site! I mean its amazing, lions will eat young rhino, but once they are bigger and have the priceless horn on their heads, who would mess with that, not these lions. The fled! We all laughed so hard. It was great. We followed the big cats. Now it was pitch black dark. They were beginning to set up position. We could not tell what they were after but knew they were setting up. Two lionesses went off far to the right, the other swung around. The plan, she would chase the prey right into the two waiting. We looked around with a spotlight, and saw some Impalas minding their own business. That must be their target. They, as well as we, patiently waited. The male lion started walking up...in the middle of their whole operation. The lone lioness moved in and the impala ran right to wear the other lionesses were...supposed to be. They kept moving. Operation fail. They can't get them all. Even though we didn't get to see the kill it was still really cool to see them set it up. The drive was nice because the woman who writes the tests for the school, her mother and her son went along for the ride. The boy was such a flirt. He laid on Alana's lap. Too stinking cute.

After the drive we went back and had dinner with the students and then headed back. It was a great day. Miss everyone though and wish everyone was here with me. Thank you for everything.

Cheers!