Monkeys, parties and rafting in White Waters....

Bonjourno everyone, thank you so much for all of your comments on the blog, they were so great to read. We are seriously tired as yesterday was potentially the most hecticly epic day of our whole lifes. It all began last night, we had a party, alcohol fuelled shape shifters. It was so much fun as we are all close now and the storm added to the excitement as we ended up partying in it! The morning after the night before began very early at 6am, with a wake up call from the monkeys outside the tent.

We spent the morning driving to Victoria falls and walking for about 350 feet down the rock face to the river, oh and in slippery flip flops. The heat was pounding down on us all and we couldn’t wait to reach the clear waters of the Zambezi to cool down. We were given our paddles and assigned to a boat and a guide. Our guide named Simba taught us a few techiniques for all of 5 minutes, chucked us over the boat so we could see what it was like to fall in (at this point a nice refreshing dip from the heat) and we were off, the rapids began. With our huge life jackets on and a rather large man sitting in front of me, we floated down the river to rapid number 1. An easy rapid, we just glided through looking up at the steep rock faces of the river side. As the rapids progressed we were becoming very confident until rapid number 8 came around. My legs were like jelly, not only from the fact that Alan, the rather large guy in front of me, kept falling on them but also because just last week someone died doing rapid number 8. As you can imagine, Terry was right up front ready to face the notorious rapid number 8 and i was nearly holding the guide Simbas hand as we all said ‘striaght through the middle, bring the hardest part of the rapid on!’. It was amazing to glide through the rapid, up and down and round and round until a massive rapid picked us all up and flipped us over and into the crashing river. We were all struggling to get to the surface, our lifes were in our own hands at this point. I found myself trapped under the boat, struggling for air. Terry was a long swim away as he was flown for miles. Simba grapped my life jacket and pulled me onto the boat where i coughed up fish and water. Terry soon followed and comforted me as I cried my eyes out through fear and excitement. Rapid number 9 was called ‘commerical suicide’...hmmm yer not doing that one and then I was forced to do rapid number 10, a easy ride from number 8 trust me. I was shaking with fear when I got off the boat, so happy that it was over with. It was incredible but scary at the same time. An hour uphill across dangerous rock faces and stones and we reached the top exhausted and thirsty for a nice cold coke.

The afternoon was filled with more adrenaline. Terry began it all by abseiling down the Victoria Falls rockface and then we both we strapped to a rope and harness and pushed across from the Zambian to the Zimbabwe side of the falls hundreds of metres up. We pretended we were both superman to give the video some cool shots. Lol. The next adrenaline filled activity was madness. We swang our bodies, tandemly from 351 feet up down the rock face and swang so fast we nearly hit the other side which is 1700 metres away! It took a while for us to leave the platform as the instructor had to call 1,2,3 twice before Terry was actually brave enough to throw us off. There is nothing in the world like the feeling of falling very, very fast to plumet 351 feet to what could easily be your death only to be pulled back by a large bungy rope..

Today has been actioned packed, i wish i could ring you all and hear your voices and tell you all about it. We brought the DVD’s and they are awesome, cant wait to show you.

Tonight, we have had to get all of our things from the old truck and moved into the new truck with new people to head back down towards South Africa. 5am start tomorrow to Botswana. I will try and call you all in about 15 days, the cards we have only work in South Africa and its so expensive to call over here, 4 dollars for 1 minute!

Love you all, we will post again when i can, we won’t have internet in Namibia so will be a few days or so!