stories of their beloved sadie and her amazing adventures with this family continued : the trip when a large bull elephant started rocking the van nearly turning it on its side and only stopped after johan convinced the females to stop screaming at the millionth decibel level ; the time they parked near a pride of lions and watched them devour a young springbok from the top of the van ; stories of flat tires and breakdowns in the outer regions of nowhere , wondering if they would ever be found and always ending up playing marathon games of canasta as they waited for a park ranger to show up .