Long Time No Type

A lot has hapened in the last three weeks. During which I have not had the ready access to the internet that I am used to. (I know. Spoiled American...) Peter's parents have internet capabilities that we can take advantage of. It is verrrrry slooooowwww. One really nice thing we were able to do, is download Messenger, hook up the headset, and talk to Jessica and the kids last night. It was so nice to hear their voices! Lela assured me that she would give Levi a kiss for me. :-) I can hardly believe that he will be one year old this month!

Anyway...about our trip. We got into Johannesburg the 28th and bused down to Port Elizabeth a day later. What was supposed to be a 15 hour bus ride took 19 hours because the bus was broken down for four of those hours. Over all, though, I would venture to say that the bus trip was more comfortable than the plane trip (which was something like 17 hours). The bus seemed bigger because of the huge windows. We rode on the top deck and were able to get out of the bus periodically for food and bathroom breaks.

The wedding was really nice. We got to spend some quality time with couple-to-be before the wedding which was really what I was hoping for. Rachel and I were already good friends but our guys had never met. They ended up hitting it off nicely. While we were there we got to go to an elephant park. Would you believe that on my very first trip to a game park of any kind, I got to see a lion?!? Well, a lioness to be exact. Most of the people I was with had been multiple times but had never see a lion. There are only six lions in the entire park so the chances of seeing one were very slim. This lioness was sitting in the shade on the side of the road, cleaning up after a meal. She hardly paid any attention to us. We had just got through speculating on why we hadn't seen any animals at the watering hole just a short ways away. We did get to see lots of elephants, zebra, ostrich, and, of course, wart hogs. We also got lots of good pictures. The problem is we can't access them right now. Because there are so many we had them saved on dvd. Unfortunately, Peter's parent's computer can't read dvds. We have a plan in the works to get to the photos though. So hopefully, I can put a few up here.

Maybe in a day or two I'll post the story about our trip from Port Elizabeth to Mozambique. Whew! I'm still tired just thinking about it! :-)