Saturday 14th...

...follows Friday 13th...

I'm not at all superstitious; I don't believe in Friday 13th or any other such stuff.  I didn't even know it was specifically that date yesterday.

However, as I stepped out of doors, I proceeded to experience one of the worst days in my life;  not at all funny, just plain downright awful. I managed to survive it and woke up quite drained and not ready for today. Durring the morning, I logged onto Blogger, read all your comments on my post (thank you!) and visited several other posts. Not least, was Gattina from Writers Cramps. Well, while reading her post on Friday 13th, I roared with laughter and felt heaps better afterwards. Please click on her highlighed blog name and read it. You will love it! 

I wrote and told her via e-mail how much I'd enjoyed it and also sent her the link below.

http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Lucky-on-Friday-the-13th

Note to self:  The next time this date comes around, I will take my bed to the excarpment on the mountains surrounding Keirio Valley in Kenya  - which I miss dearly - and stay in it until Sunday the 15th! (That's unless my dear friend Suze from Chebutie camp drives past. Then I'll join her in the car and we'll drive along slowly and chat while we photograph the Black-and-white Colobus Monkeys, the Blue Monkeys, the monitor lizards and of course the multitude of birds around. How about it, Suze? Is is a date?)

Happy Saturday 14th and weekend to you all!

Back on Camp Mwadui

Thanks to everyone who has followed my blog and our travels and for the kind comments. Thanks for the commiserations re poor dear Puff, my black cat in South Africa. I, too am sorry about his death. Thanks again.

We left SA on Sunday 8 April, in the middle of the Easter Weekend. As we arrived at the airport, we found the hall packed with big, burly men in red! The Lion's Rugby Team was returning to Johannesburg after suffering quite a large defeat against the Free State Cheetahs. Of course, the night before when we heard the victory score of our favourite team, we were ecstatic. However, when I saw the beaten team the next day, I felt sorry for them and approached the captain, Josh Strauss. I  told him that he and the other Lions were most welcome in Bloemfontein and that I thought they played a good game, notwithstanding. (Ms Diplomat, me!) Of course, when I asked if I could pose with them for a photo, they readily agreed. You can read all our Josh Strauss and his famous beard here

Josh Strauss, (the bearded one), me and two other members of the Golden Lions rugby team. (I was fascinated to see how huge Josh Strauss is in real life)

We arrived back on Camp Mwadui, Tanzania, on Wednesday 11 April. The cats were ecstatic to see us; Ambrose and Shadow were all over the bed, climbing into the suitcase, hooking packets out with their claws,  while Ginger remained quietly on the dining room chair. I found the kitty toys we'd brought back from SA and gave each cat their present. Ambrose received a bird, Shadow's gift was a fish and Ginger had a toy mouse.

Ambrose clambered all over the suitcase and bed, playing with his toy bird from South Africa

Shadow contemplates his new toy, a fluffy fish!

When I gave Ginger his toy mouse, he ignored it. Later, when he thought no-one was watching,  I snapped him playing with one of the catnip mice we brought back in the suitcase

I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend.

Cats waiting in Mwadui

Ambrose: I'm going with her; Shadow: you're crazy, you don't know how far that place South Africa is!

Ambrose: OK, I'll just hide in this pocket!

Ambrose: Oh well, perhaps she'll let me go along if I lie on the zipper!

Me: I took these photos of Ambrose and Shadow the day before we left camp at the end of March. Apparently these two are lying on my bed back home waiting for me. Ginger, the patient one, is waiting on the mini-trampoline!

As for us, Grant and I returned to the Sea Cliff hotel to stay another night. After filling our appointments with the British Embassy yesterday, we went to the company HO where we were told that all flights were fully booked until today. Hopefully by the time this post is aired this morning, we'll be at the airport and finally on our way to Mwanza where we'll be collected by William, the driver. From there we drive to Mwadui and are finally reunited with our three kitties!