Phinda Forest Lodge

Hello again everyone.  After a few days of no internet we are finally back in Johannesburg for one night before venturing off to Victoria Falls in Livingstone, Zambia for a few days.  We just spent the last couple of days at the Phinda (pronounced pin-da) Game Reserve.  We stayed in the Forest Lodge there which, as you may have guessed, is deep in the forest of the reserve.  There were several monkeys around and would keep trying to steal our food during meals.  They are so brazen, one of them actually came down from a tree and ran right across the top of our table, stealing food right of Brian's (Katie's brother) plate.  It of course caused a huge mess, knocking over all of our drinks on the table and knocking plates to the ground.  It was quite the rattling experience.  During our game drives we saw many more interesting animals.  Most notable of the sightings were two dominant Cheetah males as well as a female and her 3 month old cub.  This was a very rare sighting, especially to see the cub.  We also saw two female lions and two 1-2 year old cubs nearly take down an Impala.  It was quite a sight.  A couple pictures below of the Cheetah mom and cub and the two male Cheetahs.  We hope to have internet at the remainder of our hotels, but we won't know until we get there.  After the next few days at Victoria Falls we move on to the last part of our trip in the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana for some more safaris, then return to Johannesburg to catch our marathon flight back to the States.