For those of you that may have not known, I am in South Africa for the next couple of weeks. Long story short, my team leaders needed to come here and they let me tag along. I am still continuing to homeschool one of their sons, while getting to go to various appointments with my leaders. I will blog soon about my time here but for now let's talk about Kruger National Park.
Let me first start off by saying I love birthdays. I love birthdays a lot. I won't ask for Christmas gifts, but when my birthday comes along feel free to spoil me all you want. And the same goes for those around me. People should be celebrated and therefor birthdays should be ridiculous and fun. Also note that my birthday isn't until April!
With that information in mind here is how Kruger came about. I had shared my love for birthdays with my team leader Karis. After discussion, and knowing that I would come with them to South Africa, we decided that Kruger National Park would be my early
With lunches packed and cameras ready, we started our trek in the park at roughly 6:30am. Kruger is huge folks. It is 7,523 square miles huge. Needless to say, only a portion could be covered, but in 13 hours we got a lot in.
The weather was perfect and traveling with the Koehn Family was a wonderful blessing for me. They truly enjoy each trip through Kruger and got just as excited with me on different finds. On each of their visits they mark down what they have seen and bring along books to help identify certain birds and other animals. The teacher side of me enjoyed this educational aspect.
I do have to admit that I had some selfish wants while in Kruger; one of them was being able to snuggle with a baby elephant and the other, to hang out with Simba for a bit. Hey, a dream is a dream, so don't ruin it. Even though these two things did not exactly happen, we still had a full day of awesome moments and I couldn't have asked for a better birthday gift.
Enjoy!!
Lioness multi-tasking; taking on both a crocodile and buzzards to keep her food safe!
~love from Lamego South Africa,
Ashley
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