WE GOT TO SEE MY ELEPHANTS!!!!

...AND TRIED TO UPLOAD THE IMAGES, BUT THEY WON'T COME THRU!!! DAMN.Briefly-went to another game park today-Hluhluwe National the oldest park in SA and they had =
---100's of them and we must have seen at least 60. Babies, teens, adults....beautiful.
Also saw a lion kill at the same park. Two females and 3 cubs...= one dead Cape Buffalo. Poor thing....happy lions....lots of pix
Also=3 cheetah-2 brothers with a female and her 3 cubs. It was the most awesome day so far. I'll try to put some pix on email for you guys....
xxoo

If at first you don't succeed....

It was really, really dark by this time, but you get the idea..I was in tears.!

Cheetah mom and her three cubs. Our ranger took us right up to see her, relaxed and eating after a kill.

Here we are sitting in a BAR (!) trying to stay connected. To the internet, that is so don't worry.

Try to do some more pix from here now---we've seen everything we've hoped---saw my elephants last night-but it was dusk---and getting dark quickly, so viewing wasn't as good as I hoped. Went looking again this morning with no luck and it's raining this afternoon so the drive was cancelled. No prob-try to get you all some info.

Here goes...

Obviously we have not morphed into giraffe---I'm just not good at placing copy yet....A taste for you...we'll send more later-I want to quit while I'm ahead..

Pictures Speak Volumes

To go into detail would be impossible right now--when we get to Capetown I'll get down and dirty---for now here's what's been happening...

This is our "house". It's a Tent! When the wind blows the entire place shakes--it's cool.

Our first game drive yesterday afternoon was awesome--the mom and baby above are just one of the animals we saw, but because this connection sucks, we'll send others by email and see if they go faster...

Ready as I'll ever be...

That's it-I've done as much as I can do---at work, at home...we're ready. Packed. Need to try and get some sleep---didn't get much last night due to high winds, humidity, stress and excitement.

Hopefully we'll have internet service in Johannesburg. We'll see.

Until then......

Still Trying

....with pix and placement...who could resist this pudgie face?

Running out of time....

Quick

9:o1 pm...spent the last couple of hours trying to organize the essentials into some type of order...bathroom, first aid, in the bush, checked, carry on...there's not a lot of stuff, it's just a matter of where to put it. I don't want to throw everything into a bag and have to dig and search when we get there. Got most of it together, I think.

Busy day at work training my sub---she's got two and a half more days (yikes!!) to get it and she's on her own. I'm outta there at noon on Friday....Getting down to the wire...calling SAA tomorrow to confirm our flight...a few more ends to tie up and we're done!

No playing with pictures tonight. Bringing my computer to work tomorrow-maybe while she's doing my stuff I'll play, but for now I'm crawling into my bed with my book and hopefully will sleep....gym 4:30 tomorrow morning....yuk.

PS---is that my LauraL following me???? We'll talk tomorrow...xxoo

This is a test...

of the Fledgling Author broadcasting system...

Can I successfully link my Picasa web album to my blog? Can I figure out how to get a Picasa web album url to allow my family and friends to view said web album? Can I determine how to upload a photo from said web album to blog? Can I understand why it is that I am using said language? What is said language? Who said it? And why? Who cares?

Let me give this a shot..it is currently 8:24 pm...any wagers on how long this will take me?

....tick tock...

8:48....tick tock...

still trying...

damn it! It says image is uploading and nothing comes up.

WHERE THE HELL IS IT GOING????!!!!

OH-OH -OH---THERE SHE IS!!! Not exactly where I wanted to place her, but she's here...8:54pm---thirty minutes for one friggin' little dog. That's Sydney, by the way. She's an English Bulldog who owns our friend Doug. I took this in our front yard in June, when she was about 10 weeks old but she's a big girl now!

Let me try another...

OK-this is going to take some practice...thirty minutes to get the dog photo in the blog, ten more to get the sunflower, but I need to figure out how to control the placement. Glad I started this four days before we're in Africa and didn't wait until I got there. Too bad I didn't THINK of this 6 months ago. Oh well, with age comes wisdom...