Our one year old daughter, Kate, is awake as per her internal clock which she definitely gets from her father, our three year old boy, Alex, mommy's boy, is still snug under the duvet reluctant to wake up to this gorgeous African day and take on the journey to the Zambezi Region, this will be a two day drive, oh wait did I forget to mention we're blessed with 2 stunning kids? I tell you packing for kids this age for a trip like this is a complete challenge on it's own, u can pack every sunscreen and mosquito net in the world but it won't stop them from trying to catch a venomous snake or shout at an elephant, we travel with their nanny, Martha, to help with the extra set of eyes especially on trips like this when we go up working. Martha also only speaks to the children in Nama-Damara and I think Alex is now more fluent in this language than our own, the incredible minds of children.
We are 4 drivers today, taking two vehicles up to stay there and two vehicles needs to bring us all back. The gameviewer we got at a great price but it also came with a great deal of little things that needs sorting. For one it has no power steering and I pulled a muscle trying to drive it home which was only a couple of km's, you have to pump the brakes and it leaks a considerable amount of oil. It's booked in at a mechanic up north the challenge is just to get it there but my parents didn't raise scared children, they tought us that you face a challenge head on, if you fail you learn from it and move forward, this will be our motto the next two days.
10:30 am
Genset loaded - thank you to Electro Tech Windhoek for the excellent service, they pulled some serious strings to get it here in time for today and even worked in a discount!
11 am
Here we go!
4:30 pm arrival Bush Baby Lodge Grootfontein
What a beautiful place! We asked for tented accomodation but due to the difficulties communicating (it's a foreign owned lodge) it seems we were bumped up a notch in accomodation and staying in bungalows on the hill-top...good thing we got that discount on the generator! Phew!
Day one completed, no hick-ups! Kids are relaxing...All went well, tomorrow Zambezi Region! Hope I can capture some wildlife for you on our journey there!
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