Quad Biking, Skydiving and more Photos!

Okay, so here are more dunes pictures - we are at the edge of a dune here, and this is my group - the pics are a little foggy because my camera is in a plastic bag to make sure that sand didn't get in it. We've had two cameras on the trip ruined due to sand already! I've been super careful with mine. Here is the vew from the top - I don't think the steepness comes across as well - and we ran down this dune! Needless to say, I got sand everywhere.
This is Dune 45 - that famous one, the one where we woke up at 4:40AM to see the sunrise. This is my picture from the ground - as I said earlier, I went 2/3 of the way up. The sunrise was great though.

Here are Mina, Ann and me at the Tropic of Capricorn. Notice my hair is in a ponytail and in a bandana - I'm at 2.5 days w/o a shower here. Lovely.

Like I said before, on Thursday, we went Quad biking through the dunes of the desert in Namibia. Here is Mina (on the right) and our new friend Tori from New Zealand on their bikes, looking tough girls! Here we all are at another rest stop. The red bikes were more powerful, I was on a weak blue one.
The views were great - Atlantic Ocean and Namibian desert all at once!
And like I said in my last entry - I went skydiving today! Woo hoo! Here are me, and two sisters - Nicole and Kirsten in our neon suits, looking hot!
And here we are on the tiny plane flying up to 12,000 feet - the guy behind me is my tandem partner - Michael, he was super nice and made me feel really safe!

So, that's enough photos for now. The Internet Cafe I'm in right now is playing Christmas music - it's really random. Tomorrow we leave Swakopmund - no more beds and real bathrooms! Back to the camping. I think we're swinging by a seal colony and possibly a cheetah camp! And then on Sunday and Monday, we're in Etosha National Park - which is in northern Namibia - and we're doing some game drives - ANIMAL TIME! And then we're spending a day in Windhoek - which is the capital of Namibia and a bigger city than the one we are in now - so there will be another blog update then.

Overall, so far I am glad that I came along on this trip. The weather conditions haven't been great, but I'm in Africa! I do miss Chinese food. And sushi. And TV. I missed the end of American Idol, sigh. But I've been getting updates from home, so all is not lost. Apparently, the Yankees are still awful.