Navel Hill

Life has been a bit busier than usual with a zone conference, teaching an extra seminary class and teacher training this past week so a welcome momentary relief came on preparation day when we got to go to Navel Hill.  We had been to navel hill one time before for a very short adventure. On that adventure we had the wonderful opportunity to give a young man named James a pass-a-long card and give his information to the missionaries.  He saw our name tags and asked us for information.  I found out later that we were the second set of missionaries to go to navel hill that day so he was already pumped up, but that is okay.  He just got two doses of Mormonism in a short couple hour period.

On our first adventure we saw five zebras in one group and 2 more zebra in another group.  Our hope on this trip was to see and get pictures of the giraffes for Aaron but it did not happen.

These animals seem tame but they
are not.  I would not try to pet them.

Elder Edington did not want me to get out of the car but I wanted the grandkids to see that the zebra where not very far away from us.  They are wild but are used to people coming around them.  

If you look to the left behind Elder
Edington you will see three blesbok
and an ostrich 

To me blesbok look like a strange
horse with horns

         

This was the only one I could get
a picture of looking at me.

                                              

These ostriches run around loose
but they are fed hay sometimes

These animals seem to get along very
well together

            

This is a shot taken from the top of
Navel Hill looking down over
Bloemfontein

This is another shot from the top of
Navel Hill

This is a huge statue of Nelson Mandella
I am standing next to him and I barely
go to his knees.  It is an impressive statue
that looks down over Bloemfontein.