An Oh My God Day!!!!!

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  Swakopmund, Namibia
Friday, January 18, 2008

Ok, not sure where all i left off and i don't have a lot of time so i will go back a few days.

First there are a great bunch of people on my tour with me and we are having a blast.

The days are so filled with so many new and cool things. 

I know I'm missing a bunch here as it's hard to think of them all while sitting here.  I must start making a list before sitting down to the computer. 

We have seen Springbok, Zebras and some many more I can't remember at the moment, will have to come back to that

a camp we stayed at, thought it was cool

.

We got up really early the other day and were the first ones out to Dune 45 and ran up it in the dark so that we
could watch the sunrise over the dunes of the desert.  Breath taking, and the climb was hard, especially when it's
like 5 am.  Anyway, Dune 45 is in Namibia, then after that we took a desert walk with a bushman and he was totally interesting and would pick up bugs and things and show us all sorts of stuff.  It was like 35 degrees out at 10:30 am but we found a pool later on.  YA...  Sand gets everywhere....

Yesterday on the road we went over the moon landscape.  It's wild how different the landscapes are here and it was a cooler day for driving. We actually put up the windows as we were coll, Can you imagine being cold in the desert, but we were.  And for interest we are traveling in a big truck/bus thing (overland vehicle) that has no air con. We have lucked out with the weather as the long days drive was in cooler weather.

Today as i mentioned was an 'oh my god day'.  Well it started yesterday when Shara, Katie, Maria and I waited for our pick up for our days event, but do to the weather we could not go

a home in the township, capetown

. So we were picked up this morning at 10:00 am.  We got to sleep in...   Anyway after getting there and suited up, then out to the runway, we waited.... Finally we went back to find out what was going on and the plane wasn't working, so we waited.... Then we got suited up again and we waited...... but then we got in the van again and went to the runway and one after another we jumped out of a perfectly good airplane..   YAYAYAYAY..   Skydiving... we did!!!  It was so cool. and we all screamed I'm sure and we are still running on a high.  We go a dvd and cd's of pictures from the trip.   YA

K, I'm sure there is more but i want to put some pictures while i have them ready and i only have so long on the
computer.  The diving took all day with the delays where i thought i would be able to spend more time on this.

Ok after looking at my pictures there is so much more that I have forgotten already as every day is packed with new cool things.   I have seen the group of Penguins; I went to the top of Table Mountain and watched the sun set that night up there as well.   And saw Baboons
 
Our first camp site after leaving Cape Town we got our first look at a Scorpion

around the township, capetown

.  We stopped at the Tropic of
Capricorn line.
 
On our bush walk in the desert we went down to an old water hole named Deadvlei and walked among the old acacia trees that have been dead for like 900 years.  And then we ran down the dune on our way back to the truck.  Oh and the truck.  How about taking a little ¼ ton truck and having 20 people stand up in the box of this truck and drive them 10 minutes farther in to the desert and the duns.  
 
The picture upload isn't looking so good at the moment I really hope this works today. 
 
But it has been an amazing trip so far. In like 2 days we will be in Etosha National park for our first big game
park.  Can't wait.

Sorry this is all over the place but it's been busy i'm just......  don't know.... having fun anyway.

talk to you all soon.

sorry but the pictures wouldn't upload again and I'm out of time.....  i hate that...


 

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around the township, capetown 2	Big Birds Nest, for small birds	cactus	cute
Deadveli, Namibia 2	Deadvlei, Namibia	Dunes, Namibia 1	Dunes, Namibia 2
Dunes, Namibia 3	Dunes, Namibia 4	floating, or should I say falling through the air	getting ready
how many can you fit in the back of a truck?	jump jump	moon landscape	read the photo he he he
sampling the local brew	Sossusvlei, Namibia	still there	Table Mountain, as we left Capetown

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