What have I been up to?
Well first let me start by saying I have been enjoying the past few weeks 
2 weeks ago it was the last day of a long week before our 10-day holiday. I was looking forward to it for a long time 
Saturday my parents came to visit us at our apartment and we had a braai. To bad the weather wasn’t so good, it was cloudy and rather cold 
After the braai me and my parents left for Pretoria East to sleep at Ted’s Place (a nice Bed & Breakfast). The guys stayed in the apartment and they left on Sunday to Kruger National Park and Swaziland.
After a good nights rest at Ted’s we went to see old Pretoria. The center isn’t that big of a deal I learned. BUT! We found a café where they had Stella Artois, draft!
We visited the ‘oud raadsaal’ and city hall. Two very nice buildings. I don’t have any pictures of that but my parents do, I’ll try to upload them when I’m home
On Monday we went to Blyde River Canyon, It’s a big trip but the toll roads are good so we didn’t have any problems (except for that speed ticket )
The canyon and the thing around it where absolutely amazing! The potholes, waterfalls, God’s Window, the rondavels… It’s a very nice piece of nature, enchanting even…
After that long trip we slept in the Westlodge (another Bed & Breakfast in the old Victorian style).
On Thursday and Wednesday, Kruger National Park! It’s like Pilanesberg, but a bit bigger
The first day we were very lucky. We saw warthogs 10m from the gate, we were off to a pretty good start. After a little driving we saw some elephants, baboons and giraffes.
But after a few hours I think it was to warm for the animals so we saw nothing! To bad, but we kept on driving and by the end of the day we saw a hippo ore two and some zebras.
Day two in Kruger Park was early! We arrived at the gate at 6u15, and as we expect to see many animals who were still active, we saw nothing! We drove and we drove, but the first few hours we saw nothing!
But at around 9 we came across some people who told us that there was an elephant who just gave birth. We had to see it so we continued on our route. It was an amazing sight to see the mother protect her newly born. We didn’t go to close as the mother looked quite upset.
The rest of the day we did some more sightseeing and at the end we got lucky again, some buffaloes were lying in the shade, it was great to see these beasts.
The two nights we went to Kruger we slept in a hotel of which I don’t remember the name, sorry
Thursday we took it easy we left at 11h in the hotel and we drove to Pretoria, to Ted’s Place. We took our time and believe it or not, we saw 3 giraffes standing next to the highway…
Once arrived in Pretoria we went for a drink, we changed and we had something to eat. Nothing special
On Friday we visited Cullinan. It’s a town were diamond miners live. In this diamond mine, situated in this town, the found the larges diamond EVER! We took a surface tour of the mine and you could see the hole where the miners are still working today. The hole is 500m wide, 1000m in length en 450m deep, a pretty large hole
After the visit we had a look around the campus and my parents brought me back to the apartment.
The wait for the guys could start. They wouldn’t return until Sunday at 14h. But I was in need for some rest so it was not a waisted Saturday
So I hope you enjoyed reading up on me and I will try to post more often now
Bye!
