To Elephant Sands!

I'm a little behind in my posts, I spent last week preparing for a trivia night at Kelly & Katie's school. I took all of our years of Wakefield trivia nights, combined with some excellent old trivia slideshows from Kristen Bodenhoffer (trivia goddess) that she used at her school in Virginia.  The trivia night was a huge success, I saw a few of the families that participated and they are already asking when the next one will be!

Our trip to Victoria Falls was absolutely incredible, we all loved travelling in the big motorhome, especially the kids when they could still be sleeping or in their pajamas as we drove away from a campsite.  

We crossed the border into Botswana and it was a slow, slow process.  We watched the sun start to set while we were still in the long line, not a good sight knowing that we still had a bit of a ride before we made it to our campsite.  Driving at night in Africa is not a great thing to do, always the chance that animals will be on the road and there are usually no lights, potential potholes, etc.

We kept seeing these signs as we drove into our campsite...Katie and Greg were speculating on what exactly they meant.

We survived whatever the experiments were!

Our first campsite, was at a rhino sanctuary, we never saw a rhino, but drove through some deep sand and fortunately never got stuck.  The tree was pretty cool!

We liked the spelling of Spongebob!!

We then started to see elephant crossing signs, which were correct as an elephant crossed the road right behind us!

Greg's question is the best, he is asking if its going to charge us!

We arrive at Elephant Sands, which was a place from my Southern Africa Bucket List book and I have to say that once again the author was correct- a place not to be missed!

Katie & the elephants on our arrival!

Here is Charlie at the waterhole, this is what brings the elephants, fresh water piped in...they actually fight over the spot where the fresh water comes in!  There is a tiny wall with a sign that reminds you these are wild elephants, I had our new reader Charlie read it to me as he was attempting to scramble over the wall!

There are NO FENCES around the entire place, elephants walk freely.  What keeps them from stepping on places they don't want them?  Concrete triangles...

Here is Katie standing on the little triangles.

We cook dinner and eat outside, and watch the elephants wander past on their way to the waterhole! (that is not just bushes behind Charlie)

Kelly took this great photo!  From here we rolled out early and headed for the Zambian Border Crossing, which is by ferry...