Oh Happy Day

We laughed, cried, bled, learned, laughed, saw, experienced, misunderstood, laughed more, and left- with the memories from a once in a life time trip. Starting out with four jam-packed adventure days in Livingstone, Zambia, we rested comfortably by night at the Jolly Boys hostel run by our new found friend Kim. Departing Zambia we went on safari with a group of our five friends in Chobe National Park in Botswana followed by several days in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Missing Jolly Boys and Zambia, we returned for our last three days. Because some of the most memorable aspects of the journey were those we could have never predicted, ie working with four forms of currency, cutting my toe in half resulting in gushing blood in the middle of the african bush, being forced out of a taxi while crossing from zim into zambia and essentially all getting lost and picked up by zambian police and a yellow pick up truck, and being caught in the middle of a very scary physical fight at our hostel in Zim. Did I mention that the jeep we were on safari in Botswana broke down surrounded by a herd of elephants and we all had to get out and push? Oh and casually ran into a family of five lions a short time later and watched a live show of lion hunts the impala. On a more negative note, our travel agent ruined our lives and booked us out of the wrong airport (equivalent to NY instead of DC) so we had no idea how we were getting back to Cape Town until Sunday morning right before we left (ended up having to drive from Zambia back to Zimbabwe to catch a plane). To sum it up, many details and fun stories to come but for now we need to shower, worship the rand, and enjoy not being referred to as "white person" in one of the 72 languages spoken in Zambia. As nice as it feels to be back in Cape Town, we miss our trip !!

love emma

LOTS MORE TO COME...