Safe Arrival

Evening everybody!

I am writing this in the freezing cold wintry evenings of South Africa. Wow, this day has finally come!

My mum, dad and best friend Georgina drove me up to London Heathrow yesterday and had to say a tearful goodbye! The plane boarded and flew off on time, and Praise the Lord we arrived at the other end safely. (Although the gentlemen next to me suddenly had to throw his dinner back up 1 hour before landing, so the last hour was not so good.!)

Mark met me at the pick-ups and we drove into Hammanskraal to grab some milk for the babies then came to Plot 94 Klipdrift!

Within my first hour of arrival 2 local guys had come over on their Quad Bikes and offered to take us to go to the game reserve and look for the animals! Tshepo Ya Bana itself is right in the heart of the game reserve so we are right in the middle! We saw lots of different wild animals - warthogs, antelope, impalas, ostriches and even meercats!! I tried to get some photos but was difficult when your in the bush on a quad bike! We went for around 2 hours in the afternoon then I was given a couple hours to myself to unpack and had an afternoon nap!

The weather is glorious sunshine in the day at around 20 degrees, but its very very cold in the evening!

There are currently 14 children here, one beautiful little girl called Nao, and is around 6 months old, is being adopted on Wednesday! Already sorry to see her going so soon! Ive been introduced to all the children - yet it will take me a while to grasp their names, shamefully!)

Well, for now it is goodbye, but will update you all soon!

Love
Gemma.