lions during poker?

How many times in your life does a poker game get stopped due to the fact that there are lions roaring in the distance? That's what happened to us on saturday. It was the wildest, scariest and at the same time, obvious thing to happen when we camped at Khutse. earlier in the evening, after a 30 minute game drive, we stumbled upon 2 male and one female lion drinking from the watering hole that was about 2 kms. from our camp.. they were huge..... absolutely huge... and scary.. I was there for one night, Jacob was there for 2... It was a great camping experience, knowing you were not the big man on campus, and that there were lions, leopards, hyenas, wildcats living in the same environment. Just going out to look for wood for the fire was a invigorating experience...... Jacob and I had a nylon tent, and really didn't feel comfortable sleeping in our little tent, so we opted for the truck... I was going to keep the sun roof open for fresh air during the night, but someone told me that mambas can lift themselves off the ground and can crawl over the truck.. so I opted to sleep in the stale air of our truck.... Jacob shovel sledded across the salt pans and we played "capture the flag" in the bush... we were introduced to chakalaka sausage and I had a great mid afternoon shower in a bucket shower(picture shown) . Here's some photos from the trip.. mostly those of jake and his friends here...... The ones of the kids on the roof were during our "sundowner" by the watering hole.... we all had a drink and a snack and watched the sun go down near the watering hole, where 5 minutes later, we saw the lions drinking..
The ride there was absolutely surreal... you hit the last village(pictured) and the tar road turns to dirt.. for 2hours. Once you hit the game reserve.. it was 1.5 hours drive into the bush... there were no other groups camping within 20 miles of us.... One of the pictures is the dirt road to Khutse...... The other picture is of a squashed puff adder on the side of the road...
The experience is one we will always remember... Peeing our pants in the tent while Jacob and I woried whether what we heard and felt was the wind or a lion/hyena hitting our tent...