Mozambique!

To finish off our African adventure we ended up on an island off of Mozambique!  So after seeing tons of animals we had to top it off with a relaxing beach ending.  It was so pretty and oh so different than what we had been in the middle of for the past 15 days or so.  We laid by the beach, lots of reading, windsurfing, dune boarding and the best horseback ridding of my life!  If anyone ever has the chance to go horseback ridding on a sand dune you have to go!!

Oh more Botswana!

There was so much more than animals too!  All of the camps were so different and had their own special qualities... Here is our bed at Jao Camp.  It was also the camp that we got the closest to the elephants!

Botswana

In Botswana we moved through three different camps so there are so many pictures of just Botswana so I will have to add them as I find really good ones!

Here is a tribute to the Wort Hogs because they are the funniest animal and I came to love them very much!  They first of all have they to get down on their knees to eat and just watching that is funny!  But even better, their skin is so tight on their body that when they run they close their eyes to protect them from any bushes they might run through and in closing their eyes it causes their tail to shoot straight up!  That is why whenever you see a Wort Hog running their tail will be straight in the air!

Then the lion cubs.... they were two months old and it was just them hanging out, mom was out hunting and they were the most playful little things ever!  I could have sat there all day and watched them! 

The baby zebra, our guide say was less than a week old so he was still a little wobbly on his little legs!  

South Africa

All of the animals were more amazing than I could have ever imagined!  I think I never realized how close we were going to actually get to them, unbelievable!!  And pretty much on the first day we had seen all 5 of the "Big 5"!! 

AFRICA!

I have wanted to go to Africa pretty much since I was in the womb and we got to go in October!  My fantastic parents did such a good job planning and organizing I could not have hoped for anything better!  It was the greatest trip we have taken as a family yet!  So we started out in Johannesburg for a night... pretty much saw the airport and our hotel which we could have walked to from the airport but had to wait like a half and hour for a van to take us..??  But woke up the next morning to the staff of the hotel singing and dancing in the lobby!  Because everyone in Africa is born with the amazing ability to sing and dance!  It was amazing!   

Halloween!

I love dressing up!  So it makes Halloween parties a blast, and last night was no different!  It was tons of fun, got very little sleep and had to be at work at 9:00 am the next morning but it was all worth it!  So I went as a boxer and Shane and all his "roomies" went as various Sesame Street characters!

Made our Mark!

So I am forever imprinted at Westminster!  The school built and alumni house and gave us the option to buy a brick with our name on it so there were a couple of us that bought a little group of them!  Thanks Christi for sharing a brick with me!!

So I had heard that is existed but I hadn't seen it in real life, and still haven't but look Scott that I used to work with found me!!  I am on a University Health Care car.... how funny is that!  So while your out there look for me, I will be rollin around!!

The Wedding!

I couldn't put all the pictures that I wanted so had to make two posts!  Because everything was planned and executed so perfectly!!

So the bride in the first one is in the middle... she looked so pretty and Millen so hansom!  Then her cake which was so yummy.  And Padgett, Hannah and Maria in front of one of the two tents and then the boat which was the getaway!!  So cute!

With love from MAINE

For a way to fast vacation Mom, Dad, Padgett and I got to fly into Maine for our cousin, Wheeler's wedding!  It was so pretty and I would go back to Maine in a heartbeat!!  Even though we were just in the little itty bitty town of Camden!

So the pictures.... the first one is the view from Padgett and I's hotel room (isn't it amazing!)  Then the first night we were there we went on a boat for a dinner cruise so that was our nautical night... well the whole weekend was nautical but that was what the dresscode for that night was!  Then from the boat we got our first glance of the wedding spot... oh so pretty!  Then before the wedding we went to a brunch and lastly the view flying in!