Today was our first day of officially being African tourists and we soaked it up! We slept last night in the Jollyboys backpacking lodge in Livingstone, which is awesome. We've met a lot of cool people passing through here. With us not being around the Malaria Research Hospital in Macha, we don't get to enjoy the generator anymore and have experienced the daily power outage that most of Africa has. Last night, it was from 12am to 5pm, so most of us were roasting in our rooms. Other than that, we all had a pretty good nights sleep... Other than Ben. Poor guy was sick all night and most of today. (He's feeling much better now though, praise the Lord!) We had breakfast at the lodge and headed to the market to do some shopping.. We've all developed some new bargaining skills after this experience. :) After shopping, we went to lunch at a place called Food Palace, which had a lot of food similar to America. Very good! The big event came after lunch... Victoria Falls! Luckily Ben was feeling better after resting all morning and was able to join us to the falls. Pulling up to the falls was pretty exciting to say the least, we passed elephants on the drive there and baboons were all over the parking lot. (FYI baboons are NOT friendly and they will totally chase after you and try to steal your bags). It's safe to say I now have a slight fear of baboons after today. The Falls were amazing though. I don't even know how to describe the experience, besides the fact that we serve a mighty God who has blessed this world with such beauty and creativity. We had to walk through a lot of rocks and water to get to it, and actually had some elephants block our pathways. We hiked to Angels Pool, which is at the top of the falls, and everyone enjoyed jumping in and relaxing in the water. While everyone was doing that, I took a few minutes to sneak away and enjoy some alone time on the rocks by the ledge of the Fall. After the craziness of this week, it was great to enjoy some time to soak up everything that has happened and just enjoy the silence of nature in that moment. I thought of how unworthy we are of the gifts God has given us. Victoria Falls is one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. God created this magnificent piece of nature for us to enjoy because He loves us enough to do so. I truly cannot explain Victoria Falls and I don't even know if the pictures we all took will do it justice. It's definitely sights like this that make me realize how truly small and insignificant my problems are in life. God is so mighty, it's insane. After the Falls, we went to dinner at an amazing Italian restaurant and are now enjoying some down time at the lodge. We start our day bright and early at the safari, so as a disclaimer, this may be our last blog post due to lack of wifi in the middle of Chobe National Park. I think we're all super excited for this, I know I am! Thanks to everyone who has been following our blog posts, we've enjoyed keeping everyone updated. We're all very sad to be winding down our trip, but we will be home soon enough and have plenty of stories to tell!
With love,
Skylar Cohick
Thanks for al the blogging when you were able. They were greatly appreciated!
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