Sept. 3/Day 7: Swakopmund

Our 2nd year anniversary, originally uploaded by Andrew & Yvette's world travel.

It’s our 2 year anniversary today = )

As a gift, Drew did stand-up sandboarding w/ me. The novelty of boarding down however was replaced by the awfulness of climbing back up the dunes wearing boarding shoes whilst carrying your board in the 80 degree heat. So, we stopped boarding after the 4th time and tried our hand at lie-down sandboarding. Drew went first and the speed gun clocked him at 68 kmph. I went after and my tumble (check my facebook) clocked in at 70 kmph. Never one to back down, I went again a 2nd time after Jazz the dog looked at me, barked at me and then proceeded to run down the dune. Seeing as Jazz obviously had a fun time going down the slope, I did the same thing and had a perfectly great 2nd run w/out any tumbles = )

After this am adventure, we went to the other side of the road to try our hand at quad biking. While there, we saw signed pics of Brangelina on the wall. As it turns out, Angelina gave birth to Shiloh here in Swakopmund. With this bit of info, I expect everyone to now know the answer to the trivia question: in what country is Swakopmund in? A: Namibia!

Quad biking was just a-m-a-z-i-n-g and a tad scary at the same time. There are these moves called roller coasters and what you do is go up the side of a dune and do a sharp 180 to go back down. When you make the turn, it feels like you’ll fall off first to the side, then forward as you change your bikes course. Every couple of adrenalin runs, we would stop and take a look at the area’s resident chameleons whose colors would change from vibrant multi-colored hues to bland sandy hues as it would camouflage itself during the group ‘show and tell’. We also stopped for picture taking and it was surreal to have this vast expanse of nothingness spread before you from all angles.