Africa!

Hmmm, where to start. Been quite some hiatus between posts on here lately and I can hardly remember how this all works. Life seems to have become too hectic (read - too lazy and distracted by Youtube cat videos) to post anything worth reading...
However, that has all changed! Welcome to the NEW Gillatron, full of vim and vigor and weight loss and hair regeneration promises!

Okay, actually, no. But I will regale you with tales of our trip to South Africa, and subject you to many out of focus, poorly composed butt shots of African wildlife. Here we go.

We flew from Vancouver to Johannesburg via Dubai (where everyone looks like Frank Zappa from the Sheik Yerbouti album). Flying to SA is pretty much the furthest from Revelstoke you can get, and still be on a continent it seems. 14.5hours to Dubai, then an 9 hour layover, then another 8+ hours to finally arrive in the southern hemisphere. We were all pretty wasted. The kids spent almost the entire time on both flights flipping channels, watching movies and playing video games. We packed 10 years of screen time into one pan-planetary journey.

Jen and Kevin picked us up in Jo-burg, which was SO nice. We just got off the plane, climbed in the Land Rover and slipped in and out of consciousness for the drive to Malelane. Once there, the kids hit Granny and Grampa's pool and didn't emerge for two or three days. I got to sit poolside with a G & T and look at birds and monkeys. AMG was too exhausted to need exercise. It was idyllic.

We spent a few days here, then headed to Ofcalaco to visit Jen's cousins....