How would I explain to my children that their father was lunch for a family of hungry rhinos we met in a South African bush? What would I say to family and friends when I got back to Nigeria without him?
I know that many times in this 10 year old marriage I had been tempted to do him real physical harm, but I wasn’t ready for rhinos to rob me off the privilege. Still I wasn’t brave to attempt a rescue. Where on earth was he? And the guide had sped off! Should I go back? Should I speed off and ensure that the children have at least one parent? What would you have done???
Stop thinking those thoughts you! Bad child!!
Of course I went back. Do you know what he was doing? Following the rhinos trying to get pictures! Una see my trouble?
Honestly, if I could personally feed him to the rhinos at that point I would have!!!
Well, we did the one hour ride in the bushes we paid for, inspite of my pleas to the guide to take us back (they had sworn the ride wasn’t dangerous when we started), hubby wanted to complete it, he wanted to see the elephants, the buffalo, the tiger, the lion…
Thank God, after that we only saw gazelles (lovely harmless creatures), zebras, giraffes and they all ran away when they saw us coming. Phew… I couldn’t wait to get out of there. What was I thinking? Bush and Ijaw girl nor dey mix at all!
Can you believe that when we got back to the game reserve center that was when they told us the real stories of their bush adventures… encounters with lions, tigers, elephants and so on... They gave us a real picture of an irate elephant that pushed a car off the bush path!
Why dem nor tell us this part before we begin? From now on, I choose activities with care. Even the hot air balloon rides I nor do again, before an eagle will fly up there and snatch me away from the balloon.
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