Sioibhan's exciting week

I definitely cannot adequately describe how excursion was because it was definitely one of the most exciting weeks I’ve had here. I’ll focus on one of the most exciting things, the fact that I WAS 5 FEET AWAY FROM A LION!!!  

And I saw a giraffe, a leopard, a herd of elephants, impala, kudu, and the biggest spider I’ve ever seen. It was a real safari! We did a sunset ride, a sunrise ride (and let me tell you, I look excellent at 4.30am) and an afternoon walk where we try to approach to animals (mostly unsuccessful but still awesome).

  

While at Kruger we stayed in these awesome three person huts that were round and had straw roofs with big black ceiling beams and a front porch with a table and a little fridge.  On our last night in Kruger there was the most epic thunder storm I’ve ever seen. It sounded like there was a mountain being blown up directly outside our window. The lightning was constant, like nothing I’ve ever seen before and it was so bright that it looked like it was daylight outside. Lianna, Meaghan (my lovely hut-mates), and I just lay (or cowered, it we are being perfectly honest) in bed, listening to the rain and hoping that the walls didn’t crash down on top of us.

We arrived home last night in a classic Loch Rd fashion, to a house that has somehow short circuited so that pool house has electricity, the fridge and stove work, and the light in the common room works. All other rooms, outlets, etc do not have electricity. Showering in a pitch black bathroom is something else I can add to my list of skills perfected in Africa, along with crossing the road and bartering. We made pasta in a completely dark kitchen last night, gathered around a computer for light and then ate directly out of the pot (to conserve water of course, not because we are at all lazy). No electricity? No problem.