Terrain Thursday

Day 31 Thumbs up thursday!

Today was another great day full of wonderful and new experiences. God is good. Our day started early in the morning with a delicious hotel breakfast provided by the Livingstone Protea. Then we loaded up on our bus and headed to our safari. On the way to our destination we picked up some others, specifically two Japanese women who were very entertaining. One of them had brought a bunny puppet to take many of her pictures with. We saw her throughout the day with it and she would always wave to us. It was very entertaining.

Though I didn’t know until today, our safari actually takes place in Botswana! So we crossed the border on a boat and signed in for the day in Botswana. We first visited a very nice Lodge where the first part of our adventure would begin. We all got on a boat and headed off to see crocs, hippos, elephants, and all sorts of things. The river cruise was pretty cool. Our boat had an upper and lower deck. I spent most of my time looking from the upper deck because there were less people. Luckily there were only people from our group on our boat.

After the boat cruise we headed back the Lodge for lunch. There I ate goat meat, and chicken and rice. It was all very good. Shanna accidently ate a bee and got stung. That was interesting. After our lunch we loaded up in our safari vehicles and headed out to the bush. There we saw giraffe, warthogs, impala, hippos, elephants, crocs, buffalo, wildebeest, and all sorts of birds. Unfortunately we did not get to see any big cats.

The safari was great. We were all exhausted afterwards. We headed back to Zambia and many of us took naps. When we arrived back at our hotel we split up and went to get dinner. A large group went to Olgas, which is an Italian place in Livingstone. I got some really good pizza. We had to wait a very long time for our food, but it was good, and the walk was nice.

After dinner we all hung out in each other’s rooms planning our activities for tomorrow an d blogging and looking at pictures.

Thank you for your prayers.

Ben