The Traveling Banana: Kruger Park

We started our trip to Kruger quite excitedly! :)

And this is Sarah's monkey Grits, named after the band, he sat up on the dashboard for most the trip so that he could get a close up experience with the wildlife;)

The boys were in the back of the car so we had walkie-talkies to communicate with them:)

hehe, a statue at Skukuza. One of them is Mr. Kruger, I think it's the one with glasses.

Baboons! SO cute!

Bethy and Damarise on our Safari Sunset Drive! It was a neat experience!

This is the safari truck

And the guinea foul. They love getting mobs of themselves on the road and holding up cars:) hehe...

An elephant that we saw on the Sunset Drive. It was scary! we were shining lights on it, when all of a sudden it charged right at us! Haha, some of us were definitely scared!

Sisters forever!!! * Sarah's not here*

A Bridge:) I love bridges!

Deep in thought...

How many people does it take to put a coin in the washer??

Ok, so the museum we went to had an enormously large name! "Gold fields" Is the name in English and that long word is the Afrikaans word for that!

Aw poor elephant got stabbed to death by another one's tusks! What a painful way to die!

Ian and Andrew were... hot... ha ha.... so they cooled down by the huge air conditioner!

Runnnn!!! It's a charging elephant!

A Real elephant! So amazing!

Buffalo! :)

Rhino

impala! They covered the park! There were at least 20 every kilometer.

A HUGE bird, although huge is putting it lightly. These things are massive!

Water Buck. So serene and wise looking.

Aw, this is sad! We were driving along and saw these 2 hornbills (The bird off "Lion King") Anyways, one was dead and the other one was staring at it with this blank look :( Aw, poor thing! Anyways, we named them the "Dead Birds" cause we realized later how that bird must've died. They would fly right for your car like they didn't even see you! We almost hit one, but fortunately braked at the last moment! We went flying but the bird wasn't harmed;)

Hippo:) They are huge!

And have a rather large and scary looking mouth!! Did you know, that they are Africa's deadliest animals? They've killed more people than any other animal. And here I was, always imagining them like ballerinas, like in all the books I read as a kid. Hehe, not anymore!

Alligators... or maybe they were crocodiles?

Rinho!

Aww, I don't know why I like this pic, but I do.

Us and the Woodrow's at a picnic lunch:)

Wart hogs:) They are a very... interesting creature.

The largest Boabob tree in the southern half of Africa, I think. Maybe it was just below the Tropic of Capricorn...

Ostriches! I love how they walk!

More buffalo.

Lionesses!!!! This was so cool! We had prayed that morning, asking God to please show us something amazing from His creation. Well, about half an hour later we stopped because we saw another car stopped, and they said that they saw 6 lionesses! Well, they were all in the grass at the time, so we waited and pretty soon they came out and we saw them too. It was a neat experience and we were definitely praising God!

They look so peaceful and nice!

Hehe, a Pawpaw... it's a type of fruit that looks really exotic!

Giraffes! They are my favourite animal! I looove how they eat! And they always seem so laid back and just go with the flow. :)

Another ginormous bird!!!

Awww, a baby zebra!

This was sooo amazing! There were zebra, giraffe and an elephant all together! WOW!

All of them together again. After this pic, the elephant started to shake it's head (Sign of it getting angry) and started running at us. We figure out it was cause we were in the way of it ad the watering hole! Whoops!

Hehe, he jumped up onto this watering hole and stuck his trunk in to get a drink of water! It was really cool to watch!

This was so majestic! It was like we were in a scene off of "Lion King"

Hehe, uh oh! Dad got out of the car?!?!

Giraffe drinking! I wasn't actually there to see it, but everyone else said it was really cool!

Eating out at Satara... This was before the night drive:)

Hehe, Damarise and I got out of the car too. We just had to say we actually stepped out in Kruger outside of the campgrounds. :)

Aw! This was so sweet! A mother Hyena with her pups! This was another cool thing, we had prayed (After seeing her) asking God to please show us more wonders of His creation, like baby animals! Or even an animal eating another one. Well, we drove about 5 minutes and ended up at this bridge we looked over it and saw a baby elephant, baby giraffe, and baby hippo (Actually the other 2 were right after we got off the bridge.) Also while we were on the bridge this ranger pointed out a crocodile eating an impala! Woah! He had the whole thing in his mouth! It was gross yet pretty amazing at the same time. We were in awe of God! He showed us baby animals and an animal eating another one. We serve an AWESOME God!

Cute pups!

Our family on the bridge:)

We celebrated Gracie's 13th birthday there:) She loved all her presents, especially the one she's holding that she got from her parents. She talked in high pitch voice for about 2 minutes straight!

Aw, Dad and Mom's feet in the sunset. What can I say, our family loves feet pictures;)

The brothers:)

And the whole Woodbull family, with parents:)

Dad barbecuing for everyone! Mmmm was it good!

Yummy!

Dad and mom treated us to icecream! Thank you so much!

The next day we left Kruger Park. We saw all these elephants crossing the road on our way out! It was at least 30 of them! They just kept coming! Awww, and the babies were so cute!