So today we were planning on going to Matopus, a game reserve 30 km outside of Bulawayo. We figured we would leave around noon which gave us the morning to continue our search for the correct currency. We had a cup of coffee and tea at the house before driving into town and returning to the shoe shop next to the bank to ask if they were able to find any of the old banknotes. I was delighted when we arrived that the man we spoke to the day before obviously had quite a few bank notes in a backpack with him. We had asked him to find the 1, 5 and 20 million denominations and unfortunately he could only find a pack of $20 notes issued soon after they removed twelve 0's from the currency. He told us that this pack of 137 notes had been his last pay before dollarisation and he even gave us a bank statement of his stating his account balance as $5,135,453.32! He didn't want anything for the notes and bank statement so we thanked him earnestly and left.
This put us in the situation that we still needed to find notes to fill out our monopoly, set so we walked back into the bank next door and asked the woman if she could have her friend look for the 1 and 5 billion dollar notes. She told us she would let us know tomorrow morning if he had the notes. We thanked her for her continued help and departed for the Internet cafe. We figured we would use the Internet to upload some posts and pick up some lunch supplies from the TM before driving to the game reserve. But on the way to the Internet cafe we both had a change of heart and just felt like staying in Bulawayo today. The cricket match was still going on so we decided to get some lunch as planned from TM and then go and relax and watch the cricket for the afternoon.
After uploading a couple of blog posts and checking email,and Facebook we went into TM and bought six fresh bread rolls and some ham for our lunch, and a coke and fanta. I had cleverly made up some mazoe orange juice And then frozen it so we would have cold drinks for the duration of the day. We took our food and drinks and headed back to the cricket ground to watch the second innings for Ben and Pete's team. We arrived when the score was 72-2 and based on the other teams first innings they needed to hit 400 all out to have a chance of winning.
During the afternoon Jenny continued reading her book and we took turns playing a new name we downloaded called hill climb. The batting team was going nowhere fast and after 4 hours they were only on 280-6 by the end of the days play. Tomorrow is going to be the last day of the test and I don't see Ben and Pete's team winning unless they seriously up the run rate. It was avert nice afternoon in the sun and we were very glad that we stayed to watch cricket instead of going to the game reserve. We were both very tired from lying in the sun and headed back to the house for some food. Jenny was keen on having 2-minute noodles and I finished off the pasta from the night before. We then sat out on the patio and chatted over some drinks about what we would do if we won the lottery, a fun conversation to have every once and a while, and headed to bed.
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