A day in my life: Sunday (26 June 2011)

This was a day before Dawn and I had to return to Cape Town sadly. Our day started off like usual, breakfast with my family and soon after we changed as we took the kids (my siblings) out for the day. We had decided to go dune climbing and sand boarding. We packed lots of snacks and were on our way to Walvis Bay where the highest dune, Dune 7, in Namibia can be found.

We got there pretty late, just before 1, the sand was boiling hot but made a mission to climb to the top. On our way up it became unbearable and went back down running for water. As we wanted to leave we discovered that the bakkie had a flat wheel and we had never changed a wheel ourselves. It took us less than half an hour to change it, all it took was ‘girl power’, soon enough we were on the road again.

We then got to our next stop, sand boarding. We had bought 4 boards, floor polish and a cloth to polish the board. We each had a board to carry up the dune, polished the boards and I was the first one down. We all had a few go’s but stopped as climbing the dunes was tiring. We got home just after 4pm, when my dad told me we’d all be going out for dinner at 6pm. We went to a Chinese restaurant and by 10pm we were all full and just wanted to sleep so we went home.