We are here!

Hi all. Well we are here! We have done so much I don't know where to start! Sorry it has taken a while to post this first bit but the Internet in Africa is a bit unreliable!

Anyway we landed OK after a 14 hour flight, stayed over night in Jo-Berg then fly again to Lilongwi in malawi which is like their capt ital - a bit like Canberra!. Then we picked up our car and drove to Blantyre where the wedding is! Wow what a drive. Right through the middle of Africa! Little villages everywhere, people all walking and riding bikes everywhere and huge places where we had to slow right down to drive through the crowds of people. It took 6 hours to drive but we saw so much! And the countryside was amazing! Flat to big mountains and all very green and beautiful! We stopped at places and lots of kids etc came around us and wanted to say hello!

We stayed at a very cool hotel on Blantyre which had a great pool which looked over Blantyre. It was fun playing in the pool and looking across the town at the same time!

the wedding was great! We went to the church where we watch all the traditional things they do. They sing and dance all the time! Its fun when the bride and groom dance their way down the isle! We then went to the reception and watched as they all danced again and through money at the bride and groom! Just a tradition they do. All good fun! We were treated as special guests and asked to perform many things that are considered a big honour at weddings in recognition of us being there! So we had a great evening.

We then left Blantyre for a place called Hippo lodger and yes there were Hippos in the river! The next morning we went on a boat ride and saw lots of huge wild hippos and elephants! Big heard of elephants walked down to the river and played in the water. there were some baby's as well!


We are now in Cape McClear on Lake Malawi and it is just perfect! It is the biggest lake in the world! All fresh water and its great! We are surrounded by a village and when dad and I went swimming in the lake all the kids came out to join us. They sang a song "who let the dogs out" but put my name in instead of "dogs" hahah it was funny!

Oh yes I forgot to mention the bride and grooms sent us to there grandparents place which we vistied on the way to cape McClear. We were deep into the country at a real little village of huts etc. I played with all the kids.

I have put up just a couple pics as I have to do something to make them a bit better to place on this blog so a lot more will come soon! But at the moment I hope these stay up there OK! I will also have pics of the hippos and elephants as well in my next post as they are still all in the camera!

Cya! Ben

Our trip to Africa!

Hi all! We leave for Africa in just three more sleeps! I will be updating this blog with pictures and my own story's about what and where we go! I am taking a little netbook so I can log on to the web whenever we can. Most of the hotels etc we are staying at seem to have WiFi but being Africa I just don't know if I will have access all the time! Also we are a long safari and also on a Nile cruise during the trip so don't know if I will be able to update during those times, so sorry if I don't keep it 100% up to date but will do it whenever I can with new story's and new pics! Say hello whenever you want to by clicking on the "Post a comment" button and leave a message if you want!

Cya all and my next post on here will be from Africa!!!!!!!!!

Ben