our holiday to the game reserve

well well... we just got back from a holiday of... seven days at a game reserve. dont ask me for the name, coz i cant spell it. just know it was right on the border... and it was by the great grey, greasy limpopo river all set about by fever trees. (i got pics of it for you, lynette.) we had a good time as a family, just hanging round doing nothing for a long time. i have some funny and favourite memories, so i'll tell them to you.
we got there on monday night... and nothing much happened that night. but the next night we decided to roast marshmallows. since we didnt bring skewer things.... we went thru the few little kitchen supplies the place had. i discovered a long fork with two prongs (like a meat serving fork) and used that. gordon searched... and all he could find was a bread knife. and morgy found a pasta spoon (metal) with the whole bunch of spikey things on it, so she made like 6 at one time. so i roasted mine (mine and gordons caught on fire...:D) and gordon roasted his... he looked really really funny with his marshmallow at the end of his BREAD KNIFE!!!
then there was the time a giant bug flew in the door while we were eating. morgy then figured "its attracted to light!!" so being a bright spark herself, she got up and put all the lights off, so we were sitting in darkness waiting for this one bug to fly out of the door. dad said it was ridiculous, so we had to put them back on. we finished eating, and dad grabbed a tupperware and caught the bug in that. now, the rest of us (dads heroic family) are afraid of all things that crawleth, so gordon rushed over to our hut (each hut sleeps two/three people, so mom and dad had one, and we had one next door for us 3) and i rushed outside to the little porch, where dad came out with the bug. thinking he was gonna chase me around with it, i unleashed a cry of horror. dad was shocked at his familys cowardice.
then there was the day morgy was so hot she absolutely haaad to swim. never mind the pool was so cold i espied polar bears and ice begs in it. i told her "youre gonne get sick" but no, she paddled about anyway. waded. and then she put her head (which was very hot...:D) under the water, as i, the prophet of doom, shoook my head knowing what was going to come from all this. sure enough, she did get sick. which made two, coz dad was sick and morgy got his bug, and swimming only made it worse.
one of the things you do at a game reserve is drive around in your car and look for animals. or in our case, look at everything that flies. my dad and brother love birds, and thats cool with me. but i mean, there could be like a lion or cheetah running around our car, but they will be trying to make out what this speckled, red-beaked, flying thing is. to each his own hobby. i dont mind birding, its just not my forte.
one of the few kinds of animals we did see were klipspringers. they are very cute little antelope, and they jump on rocks (hence the name) so we were driving, and we saw three right by our car, and my parents are like "lets see them jump!!" so dad starts revving the engine so it goes "VROOOM VROOM..." the little buck did not jump, they just eyed us in distaste. since that didnt work, dad honked our horn (which is kinda wimpy and just goes "poop poop...") but they still didnt jump. rather, they stood still looked at us, possibly considering us the most eccentric tourists ever.
then there was "drivers ed by dad" for gordon. gordon has to learn how to drive manual, so we decided to let him drive on the empty dust roads. at first, he took off and caused whiplash. then he would drive on the most bumpy part of the road, shaking me to a jelly. not to be unkind, im going to be worse. the funniest though, was when we saw 3 sables (rare buck) but gordon didnt see them, so he drove a little past them. dad said "ok son, put it in reverse and reverse slowly and quietly..." gordon nodded, and put her in reverse. he pushed down on the gas a little, but we didnt move. so he pushed some more, and layed his arm across the steering wheel. what happened was the car went roaring backwards (vroomvroom) and the horn honked (poop poop) so it was like "VROOOOOOOOM...PPOOOOPP....!!" it was REALLY funny... morgy and i laughed. after we viewed the buck, took pictures and drove off, morgy and i were still tittering. realizing the gravity of the situation, i said to morgy "stop laughing..." and then turned my head to complete my giggle session. theres another story, but i dont know if gordon will want it up here. if he doesnt mind, i'll put it up in the comment box, K?
another thing was when we went to the confluence look out point (where SA, zimbabwe and botswana meet...) and were checking out the view and looking for lizards and stuff on the big rocks not so far below us. gordon morgy and i were standing together taking it all in, when morgy asked for gordons binocs. she then proceeded to focus them on a rock, saying she saw a lizard. we were like "where?" and she said "well, you cant see his body, but you can see him..." after thinking bout this, gordon and i ragged morgy bout her lizard that wasnt there (at least, we didnt see it.) i thinked we teased her a little too much, coz she was mortally affronted. i said "i think it was a jumping rock... you hear of those you know..." gordon laughed, and morgy walked off in a huff. gordon and i then came to where she and my parents were sitting, and talked of how ragging is a fact of life. and if you dont laugh about it, you will cry.
last story. i love giving people a fright. facial expressions are priceless. if you havent tried it, try it sometime. :D. ok, well i was coming out our little hut, and was going to walk next door to fellowship with the rest of the fam around the braai. it was dark out, so i couldnt see gordon who was hiding in a little nook. i was closing the door, holding dads laptop, and on my way down the three steps, when gordon appeared from the very dust it seemed, and said "hello scally..." i didnt respond for a sec (gordon thought he had failed) when i suddenly made three little gasps in rapid succession. it was like "g-g-gasp!!!" coz i hadnt the strenght to holler. he's lucky i never dropped the laptop.
ok, i'll post pictures next time, coz this is really long.
enjoy!!