Friday, February 03, 2006

Well I Guess It's Not All Work

One of the nice perks of living in Mozambique is that South Africa is only a few hours away. It is a little strange to drive only three hours and it feels like I could be back in Canada with it's coffee shops, malls, movie theaters, and relativly normal driving.

This past weekend I had to take the Canadian interns across the border so they could renew their visa's. So we decided to make a weekend of it and enjoy the animals in Kruger National Park. It's an odd feeling to drive down a highway just as I would in Canada and then turn through some gates and literally run into an elephant. It's great to see these animals that I have only seen in a zoo in their natural habitat. They could care less about all these little cars driving by and human heads poking out the windows to take pictures or to stare. I think they are checking us out as much as we like to watch them.

At moments you realize as you drive past a lion or as a elephant walks past your little Kia how fragile we humans are. These huge animals just make me wonder once again what God was thinking when he created them. We were very lucky to see almost all of the 'big five'. The only one that we missed was the leopard. I even got to see my first white rino.

Even though I drove for about 8 hours a day it was a very relaxing weekend and thoughly enjoyed. Enjoy the pictures and if you want to hear the story of pulling one of the interns back into the car while we were three meters away from a lion you will have to ask me in person, it's a rather funny story.

I'm out of here in 7 days for my dear friend Sharon's wedding so it will be another short visit to Canada for me. See you soon!