March 28th, 2009

This morning we had a bit of variety in activities. Chris and Gertrude went on a 6 am walk and saw one baboon and numerous impalas and monkeys. While I (Maria) slept in an extra half hour until 6 am, Darren, Kees and Paul went for an early morning dip in the pool. We had a wonderful breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes, fruit salad, muffins and toast. While I had gotten up to go get some ketchup for my potatoes, one cheeky little monkey thought that it was a good idea to zip across the table and steal my toast. Another monkey was used as a diversion to keep the others from seeing the theft. I was just happy that he didn’t steal my bacon. After breakfast, we went on a boat tour up the river where we saw multiple hippos, lots of different birds, an iguana and a few crocs. One croc was sun bathing up on a bank and we were able to get some nice pictures of that one. After the tour we went back to catch our ride back down the river to meet up with Maurice and we then drove back to Ngodzi. Tonight we had an authentic Malawian meal of Sima, relish and goat. We ate it the traditional way, with our fingers. It was very delicious and quite a different eating experience.