Sunday 12 April 2009

An African Family Reunion


The Cleverley siblings were reunited two weeks ago when my lil sis, Kate, came to visit her beloved older brother. She wasn’t alone however as my cousin Ayesha also came to have some African fun. We started by spending 3 nights in Etosha where we saw Elephant, Rhino, Hyenas, Giraffe, Monitor Lizards and lots of Zebra and Springbok. Alas we were unable to find any lions. For me it was a much welcome break from collecting cheetah poo! However, upon our return to CCF there was sadly no escape from poo and Kate and Ayesha joined me on my daily feeding and poo collecting routine. Kate was also brave enough to do a bit of poo processing which basically involves putting poo in a tube and stirring it about a bit. Ayesha however, is a delicate lil flower and didn’t quite have the stomach for such a task and preferred to do some gardening instead.

Kate also learnt a valuable lesson on her first day at Boskop, do NOT let Spots anywhere near your shoes!!! Because, as she found out to her cost, he WILL destroy them! Both Kate and Ayesha proved a big hit with all 3 of our dogs, especially Timone who enjoyed being sandwiched between them on our sofa lapping up attention.

Unfortunately, they came out during our annual work ups where we examine all 47 cheetahs. Therefore I have been unbelievably busy collecting cats and bringing them to our clinic, which meant I wasn’t able to spend as much time with them as I would have liked. However, I did manage to take them to my favourite 3 restaurants in town and introduced to them the Kameldorn cheese burger, the best burger in the world!!! And most importantly I was able to introduce them to Xena the best cheetah in the world!
Despite the poor timing, Kate and Ayesha had a great time (or that’s what they told me anyway) and got to do lots of cool stuff like feeding cheetahs, habitat surveying, seeing the cheetahs run and being driven around by me in our luxurious bakkies!

I really enjoyed having them here, especially as they brought a lot of goodies from home with them including new music, dvds, polos and curlywurlys!!! Thanks sis!! I wish they could have stayed longer but it means we will have plenty to do when they come back out next year! And it wont be too long before I see them again as I’m heading home for a holiday on the 7th May. I can NOT wait to see family and friends and getting the chance to SLEEP!!!!!

1 comment:

Tamara said...

Oooooh, that's a sweet post! :)
I can only guess, but I believe one of your two remaining fav-restaurants must be C'est si bon!

PS: You HAVE to make a pitstop in AUstria when you come back to Good Old Europe!! ;)