My First Solo Expedition! Woohoo!!!

So, I left you at the aiport, but as I hadn't caught up before then here goes... After the Himba Tribe we left for Etosha NP. We did a game drive on the way to Okaukuejo which would be our camp site for the night. We saw Zebras, Giraffes, Elephants, many many Springboks which I think Fabian was happy about haha, we saw Oryx and lots of bird life. It was amazing to be right next to these animals, especially as I think this is the part of the tour a lot of people had been looking forward to the most, African wildlife! We had dinner and then went to the Waterhole after showers and watched the animals there for ages, Rhinos and Elephants and Jackals and Giraffes and then there were some lions, 3 of them drinking water, it was amazing. The sounds were amazing too, everyone was silent and you could just hear nature all around. So we got to the campsite and we all chose whether we wanted to do the optional activity the next night which was a night drive through the park. There were like 14 people who wanted to do the game drive but there were only 7 spaces, so we all drew numbers out of a hat, guess what number I got! 9!!!! I was really disappointed but Wout gave me his ticket which was really nice of him, I gave him a big hug. Els gave her ticket to Erika, and Regina and Kees gave their tickets to Marcin and Ela, which was lovely of them all. So we then had lunch and then a few of us went to chill out by the pool while everyone else went on another game drive in Ella. We had a lovely girlie afternoon painting our nails, and soaking up the sun and dipping in the pool, and drinking Savannah, and it was nice to just be able to chill out for an afternoon as it has been all go throughout the tour, not that that is a bad thing. Then we went and had showers.... oh my god! The showers were amazing! We went on the night drive and we didn't see much, we saw a lioness lying in the road right next to us, she just looked up at us, it was amazing! Apparently there was a leopard in a tree but I personally couldn't see it although I think some of the others may have seen it. We also saw a Rhino, and some Hyenas which were pretty creepy, for some reason I kept remembering the Lion King haha! Anyway, we drove back and it was freezing cold and I took my blanket as well as using the one that they had supplied us and I was still cold, and we got back and went to bed. The showers here were even better than the last haha! You will notice that I mention showers quite a lot, this is because it was so nice to have good showers, and most of the time they were good but some of them were freezing cold and some outdoor and some under rocks, so you were thankful for the hot ones haha. After Etosha we drove the long drive to Windhoek. It was like a 7-8 hours drive to the city and so we set off really early. We arrived at Cardboard Box Backpackers at around 6:15 and we all had to have showers and get ready for dinner as we were eating out at Joe's Beerhouse that night. We did it though, and we all climbed into Ella and drove into the city. Joe's Beerhouse was fantastic, memorabilia everywhere, they had Jagermeister memorabilia everywhere too mmmmmmmm ahha! We ordered drinks, as it was Regina's birthday she bought the first round of drinks, so I opted for the trusty Savannah, Song had a large beer, and it was LARGE, maybe two pints? He drank it though fair play to him haha! I had Bushman Sosatie for my meal, it was a kebab skewer of different game meats and it was delicious, Ostrich, Kudu, Springbok, Oryx, Crocodile (which was replaced by chicken as they had run out of crocodile) it was so tasty though. I am not a big fan of Kudu, but it was ok. Karim and I proceeded to have a chilli eating competition with me eating two chillis and Karim meekly only managing one! Wimp haah! Then we washed it down with a sickengly alcoholic drink afterwards, I think it was called a Dom Pedro? Not sure but it was good! The next day we were up early and we drove to the border and crossed over into Botswana. We set up camp and then had showers, and I wore my wonderful Springbok t-shirt which I had bought at Joe's Beerhouse, however I had to changed as we had Springbok Stew for dinner cooked by Owen, so after a few jokes I had to change it as I felt guilty haha....TBC