Tuesday Evening & Wednesday (Day 30 & 31): Our Last Days

After our little visit to the Swakop Internet Cafe, we enjoyed a lazy afternoon and then ate at the most amazing little beachfront restaurant called 'The Tug' - an old tug boat that was renovated into a snazzy little restaurant. Our food was incredible, the atmosphere and view over the sea was stunning, and the service was the best we've had in the last 5 weeks (which isn't saying much, we've been appalled at how rude/unfriendly public service is in South Africa and Nam). It was a lovely evening, with much needed alone time. It's odd really, Joe and I haven't been apart from each other for more than 3 hours over the past 5 weeks and yet we haven't spent too much of that time alone together (bar our road trips) - but what has been so awesome is that we have loved every minute of our time as a couple and really crave this time alone. My husband truly is my best friend and favorite travelling buddy!


Wednesday (Day 31)...our last full day in Southern Africa:

Sorry we haven't been able to show you any of our pictures over the last week, the connections we've used have been so much slower that it takes forever to load one, and then often it just gives me an error message. Joe just suggested that when we return, instead of telling and retelling our travel stories (and showing pics) over and over again, that we'll just do a travel 'journal' night at church sometime and show all our pics then at one time and if anyone wants to hear about our journey...they can come and hang out with us there. We'll make a dinner and 'movie' night out of it. What do you think?!?

Getting back to our travels...we slept in this morning, soaking up every last morsel of this trip that we possibly could. After a lovely breakfast, we ventured over to Walvis Bay where we scoped out the dunes, tried to fry an egg on a rock, gazed at hundreds of flamingos in the bay and ate 'slap' chips at the Harbor. It was a blast! We finally headed back to Windhoek, again experiencing the incredible changing scenery...only this time between rain storms! We even had a rainbow. The rain alone was incredible to see/feel as most of the years we spent in Namibia was during a 7 year drought, so the saying here continues: when you fall in a river in Namibia, you stand up and dust yourself off. So, needless to say, it was marvelous to witness a rain storm (with lightning and even a rainbow as a grand finale) over the desert.

I started the 'in-desperate-need-of-a-miracle' packing project while Joe and Chrissy went off to pick up dinner and a movie I insisted Joe 'experience' before we left. Our last night...what a perfect time to watch 'There's a Zulu on my Stoep'. And it was a roaring success, Joe laughed out loud just as many times as I did (and this is the 3rd or 4th time I've watched it). Yay for Leon Schuster - I just giggle like a kid whenever I watch his incredibly S'Efrikan-flavored movies.
I now sit on our bed, sneakily tapping into the wireless internet of the stationary store across the street for one last, late-night blog. What a memorable journey we have taken over the past 31 days - and it has been such a treat to feel as thought we have you travelling along with us.
We fly our tomorrow afternoon and will be arriving in Detroit on Friday evening. We have a wedding on Saturday night, so while we may be a little jet-lagged, we're really looking forward to that! Can't wait to get back into the swing of life and look forward to 'implementing' the many things we've learned about life, ourselves and each other over the past month. God is good!

Thanks again for taking this journey with us...and stay tuned for the next season of this blog: The McMillan Makeover...coming to a blog near you! Joe and I will be competing to see who can lose the journey-jiggle first!