One night only, because it’s expensive… and your stomach would never cope with eating that amount of excellent food for 2 days in a row!

And on the subject of food… it was good, very good! Dinner was a 6 course affair with wine teasers chosen for each dish, and included a honeydew soup with truffle foam, deep fried risotto, rooibos smoked beef fillet and ended with blue cheese ice-cream with honeycomb.   Oh and then breakfast of course was just as filling with 4 courses including a frozen yoghurt and poached fruit with chocolate shavings… and then salmon frittata… before a full English breakfast.

Because it was their birthdays, when we got back to the suite after supper, there was an enormous bunch of roses on the table, and the bed had rose petals on it… very romantic

Pierre and Madi while we were sitting on the deck having drinks in the afternoon.

We took a walk in the late afternoon…

We were so very lucky to see the resident hippos! You get warned not to go walking after sunset because the hippos come out the water, and last time we went we didn’t even see them. We saw 3 this time… and they were watching us pretty closely so we didn’t want to get too close to them… I could have done with a longer lens actually.

This is the hotel, as taken from the bridge… the dam with the hippos was behind me at the time. Just beyond the small dam, you can see little pieces of wall… those are the suites that we stayed in… the hotel is built to blend into the environment and veld/grasses have been planted on the roof of every building.

Oh and then my favourites… the sunsets… the sky was absolutely magnificent last night!!

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This evening, Robbie, the old Labrador, was gently playing tug of war with her and the pipe; before she won the game.
Robbie is actually in a lot of pain at the moment with his hips and legs giving him problems, and I’m sure he started playing with Jackie on purpose. He’d noticed that I was getting frustrated because Jackie kept turning her bum towards me with the pipe, so I couldn’t get a clear shot.
He would grab the pipe and tug gently with Jackie, and she’d move away from me again. Robbie would look at me, and manouvre Jackie back so I could get my shot. I’m sure that’s what he was doing! He’s such a clever dog… hope the exercise didn’t make his pain worse tonight.

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It was a lot harder to get him to make faces, and he was rewarded with an extra long swinging session afterwards

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I really need to start taking my camera to work for this photo-a-day thing now.  The sun is going down earlier, and it’s getting rather dark by the time I get home now

See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.

See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.