November was a busy month. A time of adjustments... Paul and Micky were gone on furlough, settling in was still happening, some big stresses here at The Fold, trying to balance ministry time and family time (which is hard when you live in your ministry!).... But our everfaithful God truly blessed us this month, in big ways, just at the times that we needed it the most!
On Saturday the 13th, we got away for the day as a family. We drove to Marakele National Park, a little over an hour away and spent the day driving around admiring God's creation! It was a day of rest and refreshment and we needed it so badly. There are 2 areas of the park, a general animal area and a big 5 area. The Big 5 animals are: lions, elephants, leopards, rhino and cape buffalo. While we saw many beautiful and amazing animals, the rhinos were the only Big 5 animals that we saw throughout our whole day there at the park. We saw TONS of elephant poop, but no elephants, and by the end of the day began to jokingly suspect that they truck the poop in just to get visitors to return in search of these huge animals! The landscape was breathtaking though as we drove up the tallest mountain in the whole Waterberg area! The road was as narrow as it could be, one lane only with few spots to get around another car. I was in the passenger seat looking out my window as our car steadily pulled us around to the top, my only view down a straight sharp drop, with our tires hugging the edge of the pavement! Adam couldn't understand why I was nervous, until we drove down and he was treated to that same view!!! We took a picnic lunch and ate on a huge rock at the top with birds flying around us as we admired the magnificent view of mountain after mountain.
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| We loved watching the dung beetles! Caeley spotted them when we were walking towards the zebra to get good photos! |
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| Caeley and Ethan at the top! |
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| Pride Rock :) |
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| Pretty similar hey? |
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| We sat in a blind and watched this giraffe drink for quite awhile! |
