Little adventurers move to wildest Africa

  We took the trip back to Kariba slowly, and decided to stop in at Chinhoyi caves on our way back. After weeks away, Lily wanted sadza and chamolia for lunch (she has graduated to full Zimbo kid!) Her brother has too, you'll see why 3 pictures down. Capenta anyone? I think it is safe to say that the kids were completely happy to be back. They were thrilled to see their dad, and excited by all their happy memories of Kariba. Living amongst wild animals is just special beyond words. The elephants were close by when we got back, the Zebras were inside the dome restaurant and we had 4 hippos in our garden one evening! Lily has tea parties with her barbies, and loves to ride her bike to the playground, with faith in hot pursuit. Our friendly wild zebra's came to say hi again! Apparently they hang around near people when the lions are close by. That turned out to be true when lions were seen not even 3km from our house. Prints were also seen at our harbour a few hundred meters away ...

After a few slightly manic final days in Malawi, running around doing overpriced covid tests, we managed to make it back to a 'locked down' Zimbabwe. We weren't entirely sure what to expect, but after a wonderful holiday with cousins and family, the thought of being locked down again was a hard pill to swallow. So we toyed with the idea of me taking the kids back to Cape Town for a couple of weeks. It all came together when Tim's boss was happy with the plan and suggested that Tim join us for the 3rd week so that he could attend some team building meetings that they had planned. So off we went! We had to go while our covid tests were still valid and so it was somewhat of a whirlwind trip. Driving from Malawi on the Thursday and then flying to Capetown on the Friday. We decided to surprise Grampa Bobby and Granny Tish by simply arriving at their house for Sunday lunch. Grampa answered the doorbell, he doesn't express his excitement easily but I think he was pleasantl...