We are having a great time in South Africa. Jim, Carolyn and I had no problem getting to Atlanta and we enjoyed the Sky lounge for several hours waiting for Marylou to arrive. Unfortunately that did not happen. Because of bad weather in Atlanta, her plane was delayed several hours in Dulles. She arrived at the gate just minutes after they shut the door. We left having no idea what would happen to get her to Johannesburg. When we arrived in Johannesburg, we got a voice mail from Marylou saying Delta was telling everyone that it would be Tuesday before they could get them in a flight, when it was her turn, Marylou broke down crying and told them it was a trip of a lifetime for her and she was going to miss 1/3 of the trip so just fly her home. The lady had mercy and routed her through Dubai , an 8 hour layover and then to Johannesburg. The company that put our trip together met her at the airport and drove her up to our lodge, arriving at 6:30 tonight. She missed our afternoon game drive but considering what it could have been. We were lucky. We had a nice dinner tonight around the boma and the meal was delicious.
The three of us that made it to Johannesburg last night stayed in a nice hotl that is part of a huge complex near the airport. It was very elegant and nice because it was surrounded by casinos. It was very much like Las Vegas. Nic from Ikapa picked us up at the airport and brought us to the hotel and picked us up this morning to get us back to the airport for our flight up to Kruger. Our lodge Is in Sabi Sands and is named Idube. It is wonderful with Nyala, warthogs and monkeys playing on the grounds. We ate lunch and it was time to go on our first game drive, it was great. We saw plenty of impalas, warthogs, and then got to see the mother and cub leopard that are near the lodge. We drove right uo to them both. It was awesome! After watching them for probably 30 minutes, we moved on and saw zebra, elephants, hippos, lilac breasted roller bird, black storks, and kudu. Wow. Awesome day. Our driver/ranger is Rob the ranger who writes the posts for Africam,
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