Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Botswana Birthday






I celebrated this year's birthday with a very special birthday cake made for me in camp by Dandy the cook. He baked it over an open fire in a cast iron pot and frosted it with peanut butter and wrote on it in jam. Peanut butter and jelly spice cake in a campsite that was breathtakingly beautiful, not a bad way to celebrate. But even more, on the drive in we spotted 16 different animals including the first sable we had ever seen. The list: elephant, hippo, lion, giraffe, buffalo, sable, kudu, impala, reedbuck, puku, mongoose, crocodile, water monitor, wart hog, baboon and vervet monkey, and birds too numerous to mention.

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  1. Happy Birthday Mom! It sounds like you had an amazing birthday, esp the sable antelope! The cake is great. I recognized the tents immediately and knew you are with Toff - pls say hi to him from me and Jason. Where are you?

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  2. What a wonderful birthday mom!
    And what a thrilling place to be for your birthday. We love and miss you but are loving reading about your adventures too.
    Love you!

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