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The American Pepperoni

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Mmmm, pizza! I'm cleaning off the camera today. :) Two posts in one day! Every month, we spend our weekend away at Hhusha Hhusha Guesthouse , run by our now good friends, Sarah and Guiomar. We saved half of the American pepperoni that my mom brought in March for a final American style pizza party at Hhusha.  I made three pepperoni pizzas and one mushroom/thyme pizza. We ate a LOT of pizza, drank way too much, played the hilarious game 30 Seconds , and had a blast!  We'll really miss Sarah and Guiomar when we leave. They treated us like family and saved our sanity at times. Two of the nicest people around! Making pizza   Guiomar, Perry, and me Cheers! PS I totally forgot to mention -- those are peanut butter Girl Scout Cookies you see there for dessert! - Elizabeth

Mom in South Africa Redux

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Mom by our tent at Tamboti Camp Better late than never! We had a great time with my mom last March. We bookended her visit with stays at the Pretoria Sheraton (Club Level - ooh la la!). In between, we camped inside Kruger at the Tamboti Tented Camp  and spent some time in Nelspruit relaxing at Francolin Lodge.  My favorite was Tamboti. This picturesque tent camp is situated along the Timbavati River. Since it had been raining (a lot!) the river was running (but alas, the same rain filled the swimming pool at Orpen with mud). At night, we could heard lions roaring and calling. Very cool. We also had tent "guests" -- vervet monkeys and baboons! After we arrived, we put all of our food in our food cage and went out. When we returned, the camp host, frowning, escorted us back to our site so we could see that vervet monkeys could, in fact, reach their little hands and skinny arms through the cage bars. They ate a lot of our food! While we were cleaning up, my mom placed ou