Lost, looking for the Leopard…

After our fun times in the rapids, we spent some time driving around Oribi Gorge. We went to a stunning lookout point, where we could see the whole Gorge below us. Then we visited a suspension bridge, which seemed pretty short and not too intimidating…until you are half way across. That’s when the mini heart attack happens and you suddenly realize all the possibilities. Just when you realize that the possibility that makes the most sense, just happened. You survived and the bridge didn’t break.

Just hanging out

The Bridge

I have never actually been to Leopard Rock Café, but decided that this would be a great time to see it myself, by showing it to my international friends. Unfortunately my moments of directional ninja-ness come and go. At this moment it was firmly gone, so we never found the place, and decided to head to the post office instead.

Once we manged to find it a day later

Tamara’s dad had requested some real South African biltong. I of course, loved this idea! She packaged up so sweets and chips for her mom too, and we headed to the post office. After she had paid for the postage for the package and stamps for her postcards we started to seal the box. A simple task which involved Tamara, me and an insane amount of packing tape.

My Bestie and I

Next we headed to the money exchange office to get what my boyfriend refers to as “Rhino dollars.” I swear I am going to start calling dollars “president faces.”

Lastly we headed to the South Coast Mall to find a birthday present for my mom. Walking past Wimpy made us all so hungry, that I decided it was about time they enjoyed South Africa’s finest burgers.

At Wimpy!

The rest of the day at Oribi Gorge followed much of what I said previously, amazing sights, good company, and plenty of fun and jokes to go around. To be fair I didn’t call everything ‘Rhino Dollars’, there was also Cheetah dollars, and all sorts of other colors and animals… She can begin to call them president dollars, but only if she can use the actual names of the presidents on the dollars like I used the actual names of the animals ;) That being said, South African currency is much more colorful and visually appealing than its American counterpart. We do everything green or silver for our coins…

Okay wasn’t going to bring this up, but…

We were playing a game which is called “Buffalo” it’s a drinking game. Every time you hold your drink in the right hand and someone in your group says “buffalo” you are supposed to take a shot. Seeing a friend of ours drinking with the right hand Tyler shouted “moose!” I asked “what? Oh wait you mean buffalo, right?” then my very cute boyfriend proceeded to tell me that he thinks it’s stupid that we named a game buffalo since we don’t even have buffalos in South Africa… (Ever heard of the big 5?)

HAHAHAHAHA