Food & Beverage

Xaver and I have spent the last week trying our hand at waitering, we were already well equianted with the waitering and kitchen staff so felt very comfortable from the start. However, serving the guests was a completely different ball game. I think I can speak for us both when I say we were a little nervous when it came to serving the guests for a number of reasons;
1. The plates that we were usually carrying as we approached were boiling hot and if we did not put them down soon we would drop them
2. the soup bowls were always placed on a side plate to carry to the guests and had a tendancy to slide as we were placing them on the table, causing the soup to come awfully close to spilling right onto the clients lap 3. The guests had paid a great deal for the holiday and we did not want to taint their experience in anyway.
Nonetheless we both managed to recieve excellent feedback from our guests throughout the week. We were rewarded to a game drive at the end of the week with Benson and we were determined to find the leopard, as we have never experienced a proper sighting. We set off early and headed straight for some known leopard territories, whilst making our way to the river crossing we came across some muddy patches where it was inevitable that we eventually got stuck. The more we tried to free ourselves from the mud the deeper the wheels of the jeep sank and all that was accomplished was spraying ourselves with mud. Luckily there was a nearby JCB - rarer than the leopard in the Mara, that we managed to flag down which towed us to safety. The car was covered in mud and so were we, as we continued the drive we became an amusement to the passing game viewers and fellow drivers. Although we did not come across a leopald we did stubble upon a rather antisocial hippo who decided it was best to charge at the vehicle, Benson explained that this was a lone male that had been kicked out the herd by dominant male and that he was not fond of any company - us included. We welcomed the attack with great excitement but eventually noting his persistence took the hippos advise to piss off. All in all it was a great drive and we returned to camp with plenty to tell Maurice.