Poop Identification - 11/24/2012

Log Cabin and Rondawels

GABBY - We woke up early to prepare for the super hectic morning that awaited us.  We were cooking breakfast for 10 people, which is a million times easier than dinner for 10 people, but you’re not as awake.  I decided on some standard scrambled eggs with fresh chives from Lulu and Steve’s house.  Lulu has her own garden where she collects a good amount of her vegetables and spices.  She told us to fry up some boervoers for the guests.  It was a cheese infused sausage, which was actually incredibly flavorful and tasty.  We decided to serve the guests about half of the meat and keep the other half for ourselves.  Ooops.  I made Ben and I some epic egg sandwiches containing sausage, egg, cheese, tomatoes and fried onions.  It was a nice way to begin our morning, though a little crazy for sure.  Eric is a guest who checked in late last night with 3 other French people and expressed interest in going on a Lesotho hiking trip.  While we were drinking, I happened to convince him to do Lesotho on horseback with Khotso.  The group seemed super excited about it, which matched Ben and mine considering we were going to be able to jump on the trip with them!  Well, this morning when we saw him, he said that they actually decided to go on a 3 day trip!  Ben and I could not have been more ecstatic.  We weren’t sure if it was going to be possible for both of us to go on a trip before Lulu was leaving, but here was our perfect chance!  We were going to be in another country tomorrow! 

Ben and The Drakensbergs

We successfully checked everyone out and began preparing horse rides for some arriving guests.  One of the groups of guests was a couple from Durban.  He was a stocky bruiser guy and his girlfriend looked like the woman from Legally Blonde, “bend and snap!”.  The first thing he asked me is if I was beat up because of my scabbed eyebrow.  When he went down to the horses, he asked Ben to hold his keys.  They got to talking and he first said this about his girlfriend, “I’m a surfer dude, and she’s my surfer chick”.   Then in regards to the keys, “There’s a lot of land for me to bury you if anything happens to this car.”  What a freak.  

After we were sufficiently weirded out, we met a completely normal, friendly family with 2 young girls both with strawberry red curls.  They also had a 4 year old boy with them who was a firecracker and enjoyed being the center of attention.  Later I found out he was the family’s nephew and his dad was coming to pick him up.  The family of 4 was going on a 1 horse ride while the young boy, Ky was going on a pony ride.  Tash, Eric, Sipho and Sandile saddled up all of the horses, while the kids tried on different sized helmets.  They managed to get the creepy, surfer couple on a ride and out of our sight.  Then Ky started pulling the “I’m tired” card and defiantly decided to skip the pony ride.  The family asked me to check on their dog, Murphey, who was in their car.  I decided to take the black lab out of the car and go for a stroll around the farm.  Ky wanted to come with me, so the 3 of us set off towards the river, just 100 yards or so away from the backpackers.  We made small talk, mostly about the horse and cow poop we were spotting and avoiding on our walk.  Finally, we got back to the backpackers where Ky’s dad was waiting with a smile.  I went inside to clean up some dishes before walking into the lounge and finding Ky sitting on the couch reading The Economist.  I looked at the bookshelf and picked out a kids’ book about the different kinds of poop found in Glacier National Park.  I thought it was fitting seeing as we had just identified some poop on our walk.  We had a nice time sitting, reading and laughing at the word poop.  The family came back excited and satisfied with their horse ride.  I reluctantly gave them their dog and nephew back before saying goodbye.  After they left, Ben and I granted ourselves some time off.  We walked to the Trout Hatchery for lunch, which is just down our driveway and up the road a bit.  Both of us munched on 2 very American meals: Chicken sandwich and burger with fries and chocolate milkshakes.  It was nice to get away from the farm for a little and enjoy the company of each other.  When we returned back, I found Lulu in the backpackers.  She asked me to go up to her place to help with the dinner for the night.  She was in the process of making Mexican meatballs.  She taught me a lot about how to make a Bolognese sauce, how to cook rice, how to make Mexican meatballs, etc.  We actually held the meat together with rice instead of bread crumbs like a lot of the meatballs I’ve seen made.  After the cooking lesson, she took me outside and gave me a tour of her garden.  She wants me to keep it up while she’s gone, which seems like a lot of pressure.  She has all kinds of stuff growing in there.  I think I will really get into using the fresh herbs, though.  I went back down to the backpackers and began tossing a salad, with Ben lending a hand to help chop veggies.  Everyone really seemed to enjoy the meal, which is always nice to hear.  So far, there has not been a bad review!  Ben and I went to bed early in preparation for our big upcoming 3 days in Lesotho!