We're here! 7 continents down, oh yeahh..

Hi peeps! Our first post... 

After a long and much food-filled flight, we've arrived on this beautiful continent.  The flight, although never actually pleasant, went fairly quickly.  Qantas has upped its game with food and drink service. We're still full but happily took everything offered, and more, after repeated requests for snacks (from each different flight attendants each time - we have our pride) to stave off the boredom.  We luckily managed to get some legroom in the bulkhead row after some fierce early morning negotiation at the Qantas counter.  just keeping the skills sharp for future jobs.

Jo'burg for one night (it's 5.30 in the morning here but we can't sleep) and then flying to Windhoek, Namibia to start our self drive adventure.  In Namibia we're staying with a couple on the first night who Dad met on his Capetown to Cairo trip last year (Dad - Val and Ian), and they've managed to get together some others from that trip for a dinner that night..  It will be great to hear all their tales... some inspitation for trips to come!

Just a quick post today to see if we can actually use this thing..??!! i think we're doing ok. no photos yet though (we had a silly arrival airport one) as I've realised I have forgotten my camera cord to connect it to any device able to read and transmit the photos. first hiccup. anna has hers though, so we'll put them up as we can but we'll be camping for over a week and may not have any access to the web world.

In Jo'burg we're staying at MoAfrika Lodge (http://www.moafrika.com/) which is out of Johannesburg (don't worry we're not planning any muggings on our first day) and is utterly cute.  They have three bouncy chunky rotty x dogs - one called George, another called Dubbaya (i'm sure you get it) and another one called Chubby. Our first Africa animals!!!  It's only up from here guys.

That's us for now.
x j and a

Sunrise at MoAfrika lodge

African wildlife