Day 36

Apologies for the late blog but rest assured, there is a very good reason for it.  We spent the night at Willow Park where the Internet is non-existent.

We spend the morning yesterday packing for our overnight trip to Willow Park.  We planned to put a movie on the big screen, which meant that we needed to pack glowsticks, laptops, projector, popcorn and cake (it was Kudzai's birthday on Sunday and Lisa's today).

It had been arranged with the Scorziells' that we could use their speakers for the movie in exchange for some IT help.  As an added bonus, they threw in a wonderful lunch.  I though it was a pretty good deal...

African tent pegs

Coming home, we finished packing, picked up Lisa, Devine, Kimberly and Charlene and drove out to Willow Park.  Once we arrived, we unpacked the tent and discovered that we were missing tent pegs.  This is was not a huge issue as T.I.A. and we just fashioned some out of sticks.

Dinner last night was one that we had not eaten before - Sudza, oil and amalusu (cows stomach lining).  Jonno and I didn't mind it but Andrew definitely wasn't fussed.  Following dinner we sung Happy Birthday to Kudzai and Lisa and pulled out the ice-cream and cones left over from the Christmas party on Friday.

It occurred to me that the candles that we purchased are not tall enough for the African's version on Happy Birthday.  I say this because by the time that everyone is finished singing Happy Birthday, the candles are completely spent.  Below are the entire lyrics for what was sung to Kudzai and then separately to Lisa afterwards.

Happy birthday to you (x2)
Happy birthday dear ____

Dinner

Happy birthday to you

How old are you now? (x2)
How old are you now ____?
How old are you now?

I am __ years old now (x4)

You look like a monkey (x2)
You look like a monkey ____
You look like a monkey

May the dear Lord bless you (x2)
May the dear Lord bless you ____
May the dear Lord bless you

Andrew and Jonno got The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe playing in the dining hall while I started cooking the campfire popcorn.


Last night was a great night which everyone seemed to enjoy.