Trip Planning

     One week and counting!! I am getting so excited for my family to come. I was working more on planning today and realized, wow, this is actually happening!! We are still making last minute changes to the itinerary, and keeping things flexible, but I figured I would share some of the plans that we have made so far. We will be rendez-vousing in Johannesburg, South Africa where I’ll let them recover from jet lag a bit, relax and visit Pretoria and the Apartheid Museum. From there, we will head to Capetown to enjoy everything they have to offer there, including Table Mountain, Cape Point, the Wine Valley, and of course the coast, boat ride and shark/penguin viewing. This will probably be the more luxurious part of our trip before we head up to Maun, Botswana, where we will explore the Okavango Delta on a mokoro (traditional canoe boat) trip and camping in the bush. I’m the most worried about this part of the trip cause of the mosquitos and other bugs that come out during rainy season.

     After this we are renting a car and driving up to Kasane! This is where I get to share a little of my life with my fam! We will have a few days prior to Christmas where we will hopefully catch the ‘Christmas by Candlelight’ where we sing carols and read scriptures with the community, Christmas eve dinner with some friends, church, visiting the center, going into the park, and just a bit of relaxing. We don’t really have any plans for Christmas day, but I will be getting a huge Christmas gift when Chip arrives! We’ll let him recover a bit, but head to Victoria Falls the next day, where we will spend one night so we can fit in everything there is to do there! For the last three days of the trip we will hopefully be going out to Savanna Lodge (where I helped with the ad) and Chobe Game Lodge. That will be a bit more of a luxury experience but a great time to explore the park and see a couple beautiful lodges! Well that’s a bit of what we have planned, if you have any suggestions feel free to share! Can’t wait for this awesome adventure with the fam!!