Sunday, July 8, 2007

People of the Hippo!

Hubby surprised me! He decided we were getting out of Johannesburg, and going away for the weekend! So I phoned around and got a booking at a place called the Bakubung Guest Lodge. (Bakubung means "People of the Hippo.) It was only a 90 minutes drive from where we live, so we left just after lunch on Friday.
We where pleasantly surprised at the beautiful surroundings,very comfortable rooms, friendly staff and great dinner and breakfast menus! yum.....yum!
Okay ... so we are in Winter at the moment and everything looks rather brown and dry! In Summer it's a different story!
Below............ our chalet was one of these.


Below....... inside.


Below.........Hubby and his precious girlie!


Below................. the view of the bush from our balcony.
Below...... the pesky monkey who came into our room and stole our coffee and sugar!
Below..............WizzKid and TanziPanzi with the Pilansberg Mountain range in the background.
Below............ brothers fooling around!
Below...... Brothers and best Buddies!
Below....... The diva TanziPanzi dressed up to the 9's!
It's amazing how when everyone is relaxed, they enjoy each other a whole lot more! We definately had great family time this past weekend !
I will be sharing a whole lot more on this holiday soon!
Bye for now and love
Fifi

8 comments:

Gerkin Pickle said...

That looks like a great outing. The kids sure looked like they were having fun. Thanks for stopping by my blog. It has been quite a while since I have been on and I saw that you stopped by. I hope to update on it soon. Out South Africa mini unit was great. We ended it by making Congo Bars. Though I know it isn't a true African food we loved making it.

Gerky

sara said...

How fun!!!!! Gorgeous pictures!!! and once again that little girl of yours is TOO cute!!!!

Halfmoon Girl said...

Looks like a great time. We don't have monkeys running around here- well, besides my kids...

Katie said...

Wow, what amazing pictures. I love the shots of the African bush. You have to post more for us!!

la bellina mammina said...

oh, I wish I could get away for the weekend too.... Those are fantastic photos...you should post one of yourself too! And Tanzi is sucj a (cute!!) diva...lol! Is she like mom?;-)

Anonymous said...

hehehee... Not many people can say that a monkey stole the sugar from their room-- and NOT mean one of their own kids! :-)

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous pictures. I"m almost afraid of asking, but what are those things on the monkies chest? Are those nursing ninnies or what? They look like claws.

Tanzi is just way too cute.

Fifi said...

Yip Diane
they are her ninnies.(never heard of that word though!)