A Rainy Day in Cintsa

Well, we're back in blog and email action. And....it's a cold, rainy day....what better way to spend some time than updating everyone on our Cintsa adventures.

I was going to tell you that we were surfing and encountered 5 sharks, and fended them off with our surf boards, just to spice up the blog a bit.....but that never happened....

Anyway, surf's up and so are the Rowaans. After 5 days of surfing I'm standing on the board and even riding the waves a bit. I'm definitely not up to Brian's surfing level, but I'm working on it. I've realized that surfing is a lot of hard work, and we should be able to burn off the grilled cheese that we're having for lunch.

Although we've been doing mostly our own cooking, we took part in the Indian dinner party here on Tuesday night. They really did it up with candles, a two course dinner, including desert. It was excellent food and a lot of fun. Tonight we're going to take part in the Braii....the South African equivalent of a BBQ. We're having lamb, chicken and brotworst. They really like their meat here!

When we need a bit of a break from surfing, we have created what we call our "crab ecosystem". Basically we collect a bunch of little hermit crabs, find some empty shells and hope that we'll see them switching shells. It's actually quite interesting and we've even seen a shell switch!

It's hard to believe but our days here are almost over. We've got exactly one week left in Africa before we begin our 4 flight trip home. It's going to be some long flights, but we're getting really excited to come home...to the snow!