Toilet paper

We have been on holiday since Friday and we still have today and tomorrow...lots of time for the restless Megan to think and obsess and create funny things inside of her head. Please pray for my thoughts and my heart, I continually need to fill them up with Truth to combat what I can fill them with myself.

So we went to a lodge on Saturday called Hannah Lodge. Brooke and I shared a chalet (which just sounds great huh?!). The Chalet was light yellow and had one of those thatched roofs on it that in the sun shines like a seal, it is beautiful. We had a great view of the valley and the game reserve that the lodge was sitting on. We arrived in the afternoon to barely catch the 4pm game drive. We sat on a stadium style seating truck that was completely open. We were going to drive through the bush to see what we could see. No lions are on the property but there are rhinos and a leopard and a bunch of other fun stuff that isn't too thrilling or scary. As we began the drive we found that the only animals we were capturing on film looked strangely familiar. They took the form of myself and Brooker and looked nothing like animals at all actually. We had a great time being silly sitting on the very top bench of this huge stadium style truck. The benches were shallow so we found ourselves sliding off and creating dangerous imaginative circumstances that never would come to be. We finally stopped to look at something amazing. Oddly enough the driver got off the truck and I wondered what was happening. He returned onto the truck carrying a handful of twigs..."Do you see the plant that I am holding here?" He asked as though this was to be a magic trick or something VERY important. "Feel it" he said as he began to pass pieces of his bush around to us in the truck. "can you feel how soft it is?" He waited for all of us to say yes, I was reminded of grade school. "This bush is the Toilet Paper bush. If you are in the bush and need to use the toilet, here is your toilet paper." It was so funny and actually one of the most impressive sights we say during the drive. It was all part of the adventure though, and that is what made it so great. It is becoming winter here so the drive was freezing. They passed out wool blankets to us before we left but it just wasn't enough to keep the cold out.

We decided to go on the morning drive as well. Get up at 6am for the 6:30 departure. This time I was prepared. Long sleeves shirt, Pants, sweatshirt, scarf, beenie, plus two blankets...I was still cold! Not what you imagined Africa to be like huh?! Me either. We saw a bunch of warthogs and I have decided that I like the warthogs the best so far. They are so little and think they are really fierce. They stare you down, and then when you get too close they run as fast as their little legs will take them. They remind me of my dog Jack. I LOVED THEM!

On our drive home we went to Blyde River Canyon, absolutely GORGEOUS! It was an adventure to say the least!

Love you!