We got up at around 5:30 to pack up our bags, load the car and set off early for the boarder post. It opened at 7:00am, and we were thankful for our early start when we got there to find about a dozen trucks waiting for the gate to open. Getting through the border was much easier than I had anticipated, the Swaziland side stamped our passports and bid us goodbye and the South African side let us in easily, no car searches, questions or complaints, brilliant! We had around a three hour drive to our accommodation near Hazyview, on a route that took us through Nelspruit. I was born at the hospital in Nelspruit, 23 years, five months and six days ago, and I don't remember if I've been back since then, so it was quite nice to drive through the actual place I came into the world :)
We stopped just on our way out of Nelspruit at a curio shop that had attracted us by the copious amounts of beautiful cow hides they had hanging outside. The skins were massive, larger than we had seen before, and really really beautiful! We are probably going to buy a black and white Nguni cow skin for ourselves as a wedding gift out of the generosity of our many family and friends. Theirs were a little too pricey for our liking so after having a look around we set off again for the timeshare. We are staying at a place called Waterberry Hill, that is a 10 minute drive to the Kruger park. Because we were tired from the drive and waking up early, instead of heading into town when we got close by, we thought we may as well chance our luck that we could get our room key even though it was only 11am not the stipulated 2pm check in time.
Luckily we got the key as soon as we got there! No one had stayed in out per house the week previous to us, so aside from some sweeping that the cleaners had to do we were free to settle in, yay!! I had chosen the A side of the timeshare as it had a jacuzzi, and when we opened up 21a and had a look around I was so pleased about choosing the A side! It's huge and wonderfully comfortable :D We were also able to have a poke around 21b as the connecting doors had been left open by the cleaner. we were getting pretty hungry by this time so drove back into Hazyview to go to the Pick and Pay shopping centre to buy some braai supplies and general food stuffs. On the way back to the timeshare we stopped on the side of the road and bought what Jenny thought was very expensive firewood. It was R50 for two bundles but the wood turned out to be of amazing quality and the bundles were bigger than Jenny thought.
We spent some time at the house watching some tv, and a little while later decided to head back up to reception and investigate the miniature golf we saw on the way in. Turns out the mini golf was only R10 each so I challenged Jenny to a game which she miraculously won! Once we finished our game we walked back to the house and fired up the braai. We had a delicious dinner of smoked steaks and salad before watching a bit more tv and heading off to bed.
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