After waking up and slowly gettig ready we meandered our way over to the main lodge for breakfast. Today we got some of the mince that went into the shepards pie last night for breakfast, along with scrambled eggs for me and poached and boiled eggs for Dan. I also got his tomato :D The mince was delicious with the eggs on toast! We played around on the Internet for a little while before getting ready to go to Francistown. We set the sat nav straight for June's suggestion of the Galo shopping centre.
When we arrived the first thing we needed was more cash, and enough to pay our food and drinks tab at Modumela Lodge. The first cash machine we went to really scared us, as non of our cards worked from any of the banks, it just kept telling us that we were over our daily limit, which we weren't! Thankfully we went upstairs to a Barclays machine and it gave us what we asked for from the Clydesdale account straight away. We then went to browse the shops, stopping to look at all the monopoly sets and some books in CNA before moving on to Wolworths. For some reason Wolworths in Southern Africa is paired with Marks and Spencer's in the UK, so you can buy Percy pigs sweeties there, which of course I did :)
We walked around to more of the shops for a little while, waiting for Dan to finish his red bull before going into Pick and Pay. We bought a watermelon, some delicious biltong, smoked pork ribs for a lunch, some small Ceres drinks for me to freeze (they make great sorbets!) and a bottle of J C Le Roix champagne that we had not yet seen or tasted. We drove home straight after buying all our things in Pick and Pay, and spent the last little bit of the afternoon watching tv and also doing sit ups and push ups!
Dinner up at the lodge was at 7:00pm as usual, and we went up a little earlier to watch the sun set over the dam. We were graced with the presence of three little impala before June and Clive arrived. We opened the bottle of pinot noir rose 2007 champagne, which was slightly sweet, crisp and very dry. Dinner that evening started off with snails with a butter sauce and bread, roasted chicken for the main, with delicious veggies and roast potatos, and a cheesecake for dessert. We sat for a while after dinner chatting with June and Clive and listening to the call of the wildebeests who had come to have a drink of water. We went back to our house at about 10 and went straight to sleep in our comfy bed, safely tucked into the mosquito net.
Sit ups and push ups?
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