TAN: All Work and No Play

Today we start to feel our deadline fast approaching. We are all ensconced in our little cabins, only emerging for meals and to shoot more footage. I spend the morning working on menus for the DVD. Gabriel and Julie are doing the final tweaking to their sequences on Mikumi and Lazy Lagoon.
Over breakfast there is a long discussion about what could have caused the stomach upset that seems to have affected everyone else but me. Geoff seems to have had it worst. Initially it is chalked up to the mustard beef, then the pudding and finally the beer.
After a delicious lunch of vegetable samosas, Chantal and I shoot the accommodations and more of the grounds. I spend the rest of the afternoon working on the setting up the framework for the DVD in DVD Studio Pro, the new version of which is a vast improvement over the previous one. Gabriel and Julie do some more recording of the staff members singing. There is some problem with the external microphone but the a few of the songs are salvageable.
Before sitting down to our evening meal, we show Geoff what we have prepared for the Lazy Lagoon and Mikumi sequences. He is most impressed as are the staff members who gather behind us and snicker through the song that we have laid into the soundtrack. It turns out that most of them are not in Swahili, but the local Wahehe language. Dinner is an eggplant stuffed with rice, beans and zucchini with potatoes, chard and broccoli. It is all delicious.
After dinner Chantal manages to best Gabriel and I in a three way pool game. I make up for it by besting Gabriel in a very close game. Back to the cabins to get a bit more work done before the power fades away. I can see having baths at night becoming rather addicting. Finally into bed around midnight.