Today I just got to Durban from Botswana and I’ll be staying at my mum’s best friend’s house.  My mum’s best friend is called Ronnie.  

Ronnie has two kids, a boy and a girl.  The boy is 11 and called Matthew and the girl is nine and her name is Erin.  

They have two dogs, one is called Mojo who is only one but he is big.  And the other one is called Fergus who is kind of old and really fluffy. 

Erin has a really cool room.  She also has her own pet kitten named Google.  

Then Erin took us outside and showed us her grandparents house.  

At the grandparents house they also have two dogs one was called Sasha who is really fast and loves balls, she would do anything to get a ball.  

The other dog is a small dog that has fluffy ears who is also really old and doesn’t like kids so she growls at them and me too.

Erin's grand father is called Colin and Colin took Stan and I to the Beach.  The water was from the Indian Ocean.  The water was really warm.  Colin had brought Sasha too.  We also brought Sasha's ball and Colin threw it out really far to sea and Sasha swam, swam and swam to get the ball.  Then Stan threw it out to sea.  Sasha and I would have a race to get it but she wants her ball so much she goes fast to get it.  

After that Stan and me got to go snorkeling.  I had a pink snorkel and pink goggles because I am a girl.  Stan's goggles were blue and he had an orange and blue snorkel. Then we got dressed and then we drove back to Colin's house.  

Then Colin got the ball out of the trailer and he showed what Sasha would do in the freezing cold pool.  Stan, Colin and I all got a turn throwing it.  When I threw it, I threw it close to the edge accidentally and Sasha tried putting her paw into the pool and making it come closer to her but she made it go further away.  So then she had to jump in and get it.  When she got out of the pool she shook off all the water and she splashed me.  

Then Stan and I went back to the granny flat where we are staying and washed all the sand off.

Last night I went for a night tour and I saw lots and lots of wild animals.  When the tour was over we went driving back to the camp and on our way back we saw a big bull ELEPHANT!!

We went to our beautiful tents and inside we have really, really, really warm beds. Then we went to the restaurant and for dinner we had meat and vegetables and then we had a chocolate mousse for dessert.  I fell asleep on the couch so a man had to carry me back to the tent but I woke up when we were halfway there.   

Then we had to wake up at 6:00 in the morning to go for another tour so then we went to have a breakfast around the big fire.  I had some fruit salad and a hot chocolate.  Then we went into the land cruiser and Comic gave us a poncho each. 

Then we started driving by a river and we saw lots of HIPPOS.  Then we saw something moving in the bush.  Then out popped two little lion cubs that were play fighting.  Lions are really fast to me.  

Then we drove to a watering hole and there were elephants there and that’s where we had our milo, coffee, tea and yummy cookies we stood outside the Land cruiser and some elephants walked past us which was awesome ! 

Dad wanted to see a leopard so we ended up seeing one that was about 10 months old.  Then it started going to sleep so we just left and went back to the camp. 

Then after that we went for another night tour and first we saw a mother leopard and after that guess what?  We saw one leopard cub and it was super cute !  

Then it got dark so we went back to the camp.  We had the same thing for dinner.  When I sat down at the table.  I looked at my wine glass and inside there was a cloth napkin shaped as an ostrich.  Then for dessert, we had roasted marshmallows with chocolate sauce and some crackers which was super, duper nice !!  I didn’t fall asleep this time so I had to walk back myself.  

Then we had to wake up early again.  

For breakfast we had bran flakes and a carrot muffin but I didn’t like it so I gave it to Phoebe.  I said to her it will make her cute so she just ate it and said that it was nice. 

We didn’t see anything on the first half of the tour we saw nothing just some impala.  But on the second half we saw ….AFRICAN WILD DOGS !!  

They were sleeping in a big pile with some keeping watch.  And I saw baby ones.  African wild dogs are very rare.  

On the first half all we saw was some elephants and hippos drinking.  Then on the second half we saw hyenas and baby hyenas and an adult came up and started chewing on the spare tyre.  Hyenas have really sharp teeth.  Nala kept on calling out "Hi hyena" and when we left she said "Bye hyena" lots of times.  She really likes hyenas.  Then we went back to the camp.  

We went to the restaurant and we had the same thing for dinner and a tiny dessert which was a tiny piece of cake and custard.  Stan, Sarah and I finished ours quickly then ran to the couch and me and Stan jumped onto the couch and Sarah put blankets and pillows on us and we were warm.  Then I fell asleep so I got carried back.  

In the morning I had breakfast and I had the same thing then we went for another tour.  

We saw some leopards, elephants, impalas, springbok and ZEBRAS.  This was the first time I’ve seen a zebra in a long time.  When we were finished we just drove back to the camp.  

At the camp we had brunch and then Shaun showed us a snake.  It was really small.  We all got to hold it and it really liked Phoebe’s hair.  You know that the snake was actually venomous but its mouth was too small to harm any people. 

Then Shaun took the snake away.  Then it was time to leave Machaba.  

Comic drove us to the bridge.  But before we got there we got stuck in the sand and Dad towed us out with Mr Bumpers the land rover.  He asked me to put this in.  

We had our photo taken and then we had to go in our own car.

Today I met a girl called Ammie from South Africa.  

She had two big brothers one was called Mitch and the other was called Bryce.  

Ammie was 8 years old Mitch was 10 and Bryce was 12.  

They had an awesome BIG truck that had their beds in it and a kitchen and two TVs and it had a ladder in it and you could go on to the roof.