ok.. its 4th of July.....

and this young spotted hyena is taking a 4th of July dip. His watering hole isnt nearly as crowded as Bass Lake is today... and a heck of a lot quieter. Today we did a game drive in the Serengeti... it was hot hot hot. We saw lots of good stuff, a cheetah eating his breakie, lions, gazelle, zebra (even a dying zebra), Impala. Today was my ultimate stupid day... this is the day that I got the smart idea to change my cam settings from large to small fine so that I could take more pics (see... we had no puter access...so I couldnt put my pics on a CD at nite.) Not sure where or why the dang camera decided to format the disk.. but it did, to my shock, dismay and general all around pissed-offness. Now I just have to take those rolls of film in so I have pics from the previous days lost on the Digital Cam. The day was long, hot and dusty. Lunch was a rugged affair, yeah.. rugged in the Migraton camp style! They pack you tupperware containers of pasta and meat dishes, fresh fruit, bread, and Mmmmmmm DairyMilk choccie bars for "afters". They even pack real ceramic plates and metal cutlery. We got back to camp at around 4pm I think (time was not my first priority) and headed straight for the pool. Even Mum took a dunk. Got out and slathered back up with sunscreen, pulled out the book, ordered a coke and RELAXED on the sundeck. We had sent our dirty laundry out for cleaning.... so tonight we anxiously awaited its return.. all clean and smartlike....pressed too. But before we could see our clean laundry, we had dinner at "the captain's table" i.e. we at with Camp Boss Peter and Anita, both from South Africa. One other couple, the ones from Huntington beach, and a older gentleman from Connecticut joined the table. Our last minute thought was "gee, hope we don't have to dress for dinner.... our clothes are still in the laundry." Dinner was a delicious affair.... leek soup, and baked Tilapia (cos I don't like lamb). Desert was a menagerie of chocolate sin..... can't remember what they called it.. it was just chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. The meal was adorned by a nice bottle of South African Sav. Blanc. That's what is nice about Africa... LOTS of good South African wines.
After "afters" the eyes started to droop, so we found our young lad with the bow and quiver and arrows and followed him to our room.... once again all we saw of danger were hares and civits. Next morning was gonna be a early morn... tea and coffee at 6, breakie at 0630 and take off at 7. Dang that Charles.
We had been hearing bits and pieces of the 2006 "soccer" world cup. By the time I had left Scotland, Ukraine was out. US lost early. England was kicked out by Portugal on the 1st. Today, the 4th was a good day cos Italy kicked the Evil Germany out of the race. Woo hoo!!!!!