Friday, April 13, 2018

Botswana - Friday Game Drive!

On Friday, we spent our morning at the Gaborone Game Reserve. This was a great drive-thru park where we got to see a TON of "small" (meaning not elephants or rhinos or lions!) animals in their natural setting. I'm not a huge animal lover, so I did you a favor by only posting one picture of each animal! ;) At the end of the day, we referred to this "the most unusual game drive ever!"

Here we go! (At this point, I'm wondering if there are bathrooms along the way or if we'll be stopping to go in nature while watching our backs for animal attacks!)

Checking out the eland!

Eland are HUGE animals!

Provoking the baboons...before our lunch attack!

Working on the fire! It was a cool, cloudy day.

Love time with my guy!

And this guy too!

Save me, Isaac!

Male impala are so beautiful!

A huge kudu!

Mama Dee was in her element, especially with all the birds!

A giant ostrich! At one point, Blu provoked the ostriches with our vehicle, so one went a little crazy and almost ran into the side of Blake's vehicle right where Dawni's open window was! It was HILARIOUS to watch from behind them!!!

The girls :)

All ready for the hot dogs!! We started making them, and Cason wandered a little bit away from us, and the next thing you know, he's screaming and 2 baboons are surrounding him swatting at his plate to get his food! We all turn to look and scream, and a baboon sneaks up and grabs Dad's hot dog and bun off the grill where he was toasting it! Dad turned back around and yelled, "What?!! NO!!!!" And we all. died. laughing. Still.
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Don't worry - we made sure to "distinguish" our fires. We had a big one and a little one. They were both very distinguished. ;)

That sign wasn't lying. Dad said he'll be sure to take the Kimbroughs to the Brownwood Water Treatment Plant when they come visit us!!

This view during our game drive - gorgeous!

A massive warthog!

And some beautiful zebra!

Then we headed back to the Kimbroughs for pizza night! And rest.

And more games!

Seven homemade pizzas!! Delicious!!

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