Rest Day

This morning I woke up at 5:45am and the fence posts 2 metres outside our window had disappeared. The fog that had rolled in was unbelievable. I had never seen it so thick. Petes house was invisible, so was our shower room and the silence was deafening.
I wandered up to the house and luckily nobody else was up so I made coffee in silence and then crept upstairs to the roof terrace to drink in silence.
By 7:15am I could already see a little further out of the grounds as the fog was trying to lift and the massive 50ft sand dunes in the distance now looked like mountains shrouded in cloud, and by 8:30am the fog had pretty much disappeared and the sun was burning hot.
We had nothing planned for today, Ellie hadn’t been feeling great so I didn’t push for Pete to amuse us and as it was Easter Sunday we thought most places would be really busy or just closed.
At 10am, Pete cooked us a lovely breakfast of sausage, scrambled egg and garlic bread. Then Ellie went to message Ben as it was his birthday and Pete and I sat on the roof terrace and hid from hurricane Anneka, unfortunately we could still hear her talking to herself, huffing and puffing, moaning about the heat, cow’s mooing in the far distance, bugs and how sweaty she was.
At 3pm Pete said he was going to do some work and phone some clients so I went on a walk down the road. It was so peaceful and for the first time in days I could finally be in my own thoughts. I walked for a mile and a half watching the dung beetles and looking out for snakes following there tracks in the sandy road, before meeting 3 young girls between 8 & 14 years old and turning around and walking back with them.
They were the sisters of the young lad that watched over our car with a machete when we went to the beach and all I got out of them on the way home was one word yes and no answers but they seemed very pleased to be walking with an outsider and were full of giggly smiles.
We waved each other goodbye just as I was walking up the tracks 100 meters before home and I could see them running up the sand dunes to there house to tell there parents they had been talking to me.
Back at the house Anneka was moaning because the water had just run out. So no showers and no running toilet water. Obviously that made her day and gave her something else negative to talk about besides me and Ellie sleeping with our bedroom door open so she might get raped and me wandering around wearing a watch so I’ll get shot and robbed.
When I did return everyone was in the main house downstairs talking. What I really don’t like about Anneka besides her negative view on the whole world being dangerous is the fact that she is so opinionated and her opinion is always right and to get that point across she will shout over the top of of whoever is talking.
We stayed talking until dinner time and I couldn’t wait for dinner to be over just so Pete could smoke his last joint and we could all go to bed.
We had decided earlier we would do a late night game drive but Ellie wasn’t feeling up to it so I said to Pete we would go in a couple of nights time and after dinner we were all worn out with the brashness of Anneka and at 8:45pm even Pete said he was done and we all went to bed. Czytaj więcej