Five Star Bush Luncheon Mombo Style

After a quick breakfast at Mombo, our family with the fun addition of Paula enjoyed a fun morning with Sefo.  We knew that there had to be lions very near the camp because of the volume of the roars we heard early that morning.  Yep, we were right!  They were in camp....not close enough to our tents...but very close..in fact under some of the employee tents.  YIKES!   We saw a lot of giraffes, elephants, zebras, the usual abundance of impala, and an enormous owl.  Graham met us somewhere in the middle of nowhere to steal Paula from us.  Paula and Jimmy left late that morning for Vumbura Plains and she had a plane to catch!  After Paula left, we were bouncing along one of the middle roads and Caroline said to Sefo that she had been looking all morning in the trees for a leopard.  Sefo said for us to look under the trees instead of just in them.  As soon as those words came out of his mouth..BAM...that she was!  Pula...Legadema's daughter under a tree.  And what a beauty she is!!!  As we sat and watched her, Sefo said noticed that she kept looking up in the tree.  It was a tree that was covered in leafy thick vines...so it had lots of cover!  There tucked into the vines in an upper branch was the lifeless body of a large baboon!  Soon, Pula, climbed the tree and began eating her prize!  I won't describe it to you!  Yall know stuff like that makes me ill!  Time was escaping!  We were late to lunch!  Reluctantly, we left, Pula with the happy meal and headed for camp!  Sefo received a call (or so he said) from Graham that the lions were blocking the road into camp so that we would have to go a back way.  We are always up for any areas and roads that we haven't seen!   After quite a bit of driving and after Sefo said that he was lost, we knew something was up!  Sefo doesn't get lost!  At least not in his backyard, Mombo!  As we came around a corner, there was beautiful Jemima, the chef, and another wonderful staff member from Mombo.  They had a surprise bush luncheon just for us at Hippo Corner.  It is a beautiful spot!  There is a raised structure there too.  Jemima had soap and water for us to wash our dusty hands.  A beautiful table had been laid.  The chef had a grill set up and had several selections of salads and veggies.  A full bar was also part of the setting!  And the "port-o-potty" bush style!  I will include a pic of that!  Ha!  The dessert was crepes bathed in chocolate and topped with fruit!  What a fabulous surprise!  We loved everything!  It was truly a highlight of our African Adventure!  We had such a great time looking at all of the hippos, red lechwe, and exotic birds while we dined in style!