Nammiiiiiibia!

Namibia was a hooooot! The first night I went to this bar called the Raft, and drank some delicious Namibian lager and talked to the beautifully-accented South Africans. Everything is sooooo cheap there, a cab ride to another city was 3 bucks, and a whole personal pizza about 4! The next day I went with SAS to a place called the Moon Landscape, where I camped and stargazed under these towering sandy mountains. Our tents were really, reeeeally nice, with framed beds and electric lights, and at around 2 am I lugged my huge bed out and bundled up and slept under the sparkling starry sky and listened to Andrew Bird and was really really happy to be on Earth. After that, I came back to the ship and went to a really delicious restaurant called Crazy Mama’s and then went to a place called El Rio and danced the night away to Namibian music.The next day I went with my friends Drew, Jen, Mitzi, Scott, Chris, and Kristin to this town Swakopmund about 30 minutes away. We had some German home cooking with the first sauerkraut I have ever enjoyed, plus we all shared (just for the novelty of it) a huuuuumungous 3 liter thing of beer. When I have free internet again I will upload a picture of the vessel…it dwarfed me! The next day, Chris, Drew, Jen, Scott and I went ATV’ing in the sand dunes of Swakopmund. Good god! The colors of it would kill a person! It was absolutely dazzling, the peach colored sand and searing blue sky with the ocean behind it, added to the pure delight of flying down the side of a warm soft mountain…like something out of a dream! We got on the boat yesterday and I had 3 classes today on about 5 hours of sleep. I might call it a night early tonight so I can get tons of things done tomorrow before I arrive in Cape Town, South Africa! Love and miss you all!