Well I has been a while since I have updated my blog but I have been quite busy.  I came back to the States briefly before I set off to Namibia with my parents on safari.  So here are some of the highlights of our trip.  Namibia is absolutely incredible!!!  I loved every moment and have to go back!!  This first picture is my mom.  She and I had some serious fun playing with long-exposure photos on the roof of our bungalow one night!

I can't break with tradition so here is a crazy jumping picture African style!

Namibia is very desert which really felt like home.  The scope of the landscapes was immense.  I loved how open and free it feels!

While my dad and his friend Shawn were hunting the rest of us went on a tour to some incredible locations.  We had so much fun and visited many wonderful areas of Namibia.  Here is our group at dinner in Etosha National Park- Bernd (our tour guide), me, mom, Sherry and Kyle.  The food was great, make sure you try the oryx if you go!

We watched the sunset after hiking to the top of this mount.  The vast beauty of the landscape was incredible!  Truly breathtaking!

This is some bougenvia at one of the places we stayed.  It was very much in the middle of nowhere in an incredibly beautiful area of Namibia.  It was wonderful! 

Here I am attempting to hitchhike!  Talk about the middle of nowhere!!!  We stopped for lunch where we literally couldn't see anything the horizon in any direction.  What is funny is that this is a pretty major road in the region (that's the road on the right of the photo).  I think three cars came by in the hour we were stopped.  It was one of the most memorable lunches ever, we had a blast running and horsing around!

 It was amazing to watch the giraffes and the way their tongues maneuvered around the acacia thorns to eat the blossoms.

The zebras often laid their heads on each other it was sweet and made for great pictures.

Here are some elephants coming in to drink at a water hole.  One of the neatest things I learned and was able to observe was the hierarchy that exists among all the animal species, especially at water holes.  The elephants are definitely in charge, they're the real kings.

The diversity of animal species at the water holes was quite varied.  Here is a photo with elephants, ostriches, zebras and oryx represented.  I was surprised at how freely they mingled, at one hole we saw eight different species all together.  How cool!

We visited a fur seal colony on the Skeleton Coast near Swakopmund.  It was remarkable to see so many seals together but they smelled VERY bad!  It was also very comical because they make a sound that sounds like bleating sheep.  So essentially it was like seeing a herd of thousands of smelly aquatic sheep, cool!!  This was one of our favorites because it was very asleep with a flipper sticking straight in the air, none of the others slept this way.