Last night Jenny and I had decided that we needed to be a bit better about exercising while on this trip and so we agreed to wake up early and go on a short run this morning. We set the alarm for 6:30 and I woke up and made some coffee and tea for us before we set off. Wile I was standing outside the house there were a ton of animals from the surrounding veld at the damn including warthog; guess you have to be awake early to see them. We stretched for a few minutes and finished our drinks before setting off on our run down the same path that we drove down a few days ago.
I cannot say that we were brilliant but our run didn't go too bad for people who haven't run in a very long time. We returned to the house and stretched to cool down before each having a shower. We were still very early to go to breakfast so we wasted time by watching some tv and having another tea and coffee. Once it was an acceptable time we walked to the main lodge for our breakfast of sausages, scrambled eggs, tea and coffee. By this time in the week we were really running out of things to do, so we simply headed back to our lodge where we turned on the tv and relaxed for the duration of the afternoon.
Jenny stayed in the lounge and watched a few episodes of top gear with me while we played a few games of Jenga. Shortly after noon she retired to the bedroom to read some of her book on the iPad and I continued watching tv. At about 15:00 I was startled out of my seat by a horrific gust of wind from outside that blew open the door to the lodge, sent paperwork flying and was accompanied my a series of almighty crashes. I ran outside to see what was happening and was confronted by a dust devil about 20 meters from the front door. The almighty crash that I heard was the sound of the sun umbrellas being picked up and thrown on top of the lodge, gauging the thatched roof. Jenny continued reading through all of this while I tried to put the place back together. A little while latter, at about the same time that Jenny finished her entire book, Clive stopped by to let us know that they would not be joining us for dinner.
Our dinner was a brilliant starter of spinach pastry, followed by a type of chicken strip main and finished off with cheesecake. I have to say that the food so far this week has been nothing short of amazing. We had a couple of drinks while we watched the animals around the damn before heading home and attempting to go to sleep. I say attempting because the night was blisteringly hot and we had to resort to laying wet towels over ourselves so we stood a chance of being comfortable.
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