Zimbabwe - Vic Falls

Hopefully this works and there is not a power cut.
HAd some very long days of travel for the first week - up between 4.30 and 5 am ready to leave on the truck by 5.30pm. Experienced rain and still are experiencing some very stormy weather making it impossible to see most wildlife - however we knew this time of year was dodgy. Found a liquor store in Maun and spent up large - Don relieved. Had our first (of no doubt many) doozy arguments at 5.25am one morning - not the best time but the only time I could vent my frustration. Sat next to each other on the truck for the next 4 hours without talking!! All good later in day when had our first sunset cruise on I think the Zambezi river or it could have been the Chobe river - saw heaps of hippos and they were cool!!
Had a safari drive early the next morning 5.30am, in chobe National Park which is meant to house some 5o ooo elephants - did not see one. In fact only wildlife we saw was a small croc, some big lizards, Impala and 2 Dung bettles.
Have been in Vic falls for the last 3 nights. It is meant o be the Queenstown of Zimbabwe and it is as far as Adrenaline activities go (along with the price), but other than that it is our first taste of what we are expect from Zimbabwe. Small children begging, shops shut or it open, they have nothing to sell, people hassling you to buy there curios (I am sure they are made in China). And all the curios are the same!! They even want to buy the clothes off yourown back. Don thought they wanted mine for a tent they were building that was more than one room!!
HAd a very lazy day at the camp site in vic falls yesterday - upgraded to a very dingy room and think we now have bed bugs which have not doubt nexted in our sleeping bags for the remainder of the journey. Also changed some money yesterday on the blackmarket at a rate of $1us for $1.3 million zimbabwe. Offical rate at banks here is nowhere near this. Changed $15US and got $19.5million Zim. Most notes in $200 000 but still we had a great wod of money. Bear at the local bar here at the camp site is $4m Zim so the money is disappearing. We don't go out at night for firstly the real threat of being robbed (and although there is streetlighting they are not turned on), and secondly we are in a national park and animals do come down the main street at night. Will send this now to see if it works and we are about due for another power cut