Well I’m pleased to report that yesterday ended very well. As we were pulling back into the campus from our shopping trip into hoedspruit for more junk food to fill my study table, we realized that we could head into Kruger for 2 hours before the gate closed, so we threw our groceries into our rooms and hurried to the gate, we didn’t expect to see that much because there wasnt alot of action at this time of the year towards the orpen gate of Kruger, so it was more of a pleasure drive. As we were 5 minutes into the gate we noticed a build up of cars blocking the road. For all who dont know a build up of more than 4 cars in the Kruger Park means there is something good to see. So as we pulled up we asked one of the tourists in the cars what they were looking at and to our surprise they said cheetah!! #1) a cheetah is very hard and rare to spot on a drive and 2) we never expected a cheetah of all mammals to be so close to the gate so it was quite a surprise. We quickly tried to push our way through to get some good pictures since the cheetah was walking very slow and was alert and stalking ! We looked ahead on the left and saw a group of impala eating and completely unaware of her presence, so we quickly drove up ahead of everyone else because we figured she was going to go in for the kill and we wanted to have the best seat in the house. We drove ahead and waited and waited and waited for her to come around but the build up of cars ended up scaring her off deep into the bush , so unfortunately we did not get to witness our first chase and kill 
Today was a pretty interesting day and I literally felt like a man because we first went over rifle/weapon handling ( not gun) then we each had to change a flat tire on the land rover which is huge and very heavy by yourself. The Jack was about my height The rest of the flat tire practice consisted of loosening the bolts making sure the tires were secure with bricks, ushering our guest to safety, taking off the tire putting it back onto the car which was near impossible , tightening the bolts back up again and slowly letting the jack back down! Man I have to say after today I am pretty tired and am ready to go to bed so goodnight to all!!
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