Saturday, July 24, 2010

Last day in Africa

We had a lazy day today. Toasted peanut butter sandwiches for breakfast here at the Ultimate Lodge. They had a hard time getting peanut butter. There are some serious differences in a third world country. For example, the power goes out randomly, toilet paper, (when you can find it) is made of recycled something, there is no milk here, and their roads have slashed yellow lines on the sides of the roads, if it is a paved road, which also is rare, and solid white lines down the middle. Also, I am still having a hard time with them driving on the other side of the road. I have learned just not to watch too closely. After breakfast, we went with Zway to walk the bridge between Zambia and Zimbabwe. He told us not to buy anything from the Zambia side, they would be very aggressive if you start buying. We stopped for pictures, then walked to the Zambia side of the bridge and around to the bungee jumping area. There was about a two hour wait to jump, so Bret was discouraged. Also, since Rocky and Angie make bungee cords they confirmed that it was not a good cord and would highly recommend that we don't jump. We watched a few people jump and we even saw a piece of the cord come off and fall to the river. For lunch we had wart hog sandwiches, then Zway brought us back to the lodge for a few hours to start organizing our luggage. At 4:00, Zway picked us back up and took us to the Safari Lodge where we watched elephants, buffalo and a big kudu at the water hole. We are back to our lodge now for dinner of hamburgers, but a surprise meat, not beef. We will see! Just as a side note, Bret tried to take pictures of an Zambian police man with a weird looking weapon. But Zway quickly warned him not too. Thank you, Zway! We will start for home tomorrow at 11:00 am Zimbabwe time. We fly from Zimbabwe to South Africa, South Africa to Atlanta, Georgia (18 hours :)), Atlanta, to Salt Lake, then home!! Love you all, see you in a few days!!

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