Oops, I messed up posting Joel's last message. It should have read that it was from Coffee Bay, not Oudtshoorn. Please forgive me? :) Now we're in Outshoorn, but after we left Coffee Bay we went to a place called Cintsa. The reason we went there was purely selfish on my part--they have a restaurant called Michaela's! Can you believe it? Hopefully i"ll have photo evidence to post. Goodness knows I made Joel take a million photos of me (with the menus, with the road signs, with the restaurant sign). Oddly enough, our waiter wasn't overly impressed that my name is Michaela. Odd...I thought it was quite possibly the coolest coincidence EVER. We hung ou tin Cinsta for a few days, relaxing and going kayaking. Did Joel mention that we tried surfing in Coffee Bay? 40 minutes and we were dead tired. It's brutal stuff! We were going to attempt it again in Cinsta, but our arms wouldn't let us. After Cintsa, we headed to East London for a day. I GOT TO PLAY WITH LION CUBS! It was totally a highlight of the trip. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. The cubs were five months old and pretty playful--one guy in particular liked to pretened he was goign to pounce on us and eat us for lunch. Even though they were young, their paws were bigger than my hands! We stayed in the pen with them for quite a while. I think we filld up an entire memory card of photos and videos of them. Joel had to tear me away. This update will have a definite animal theme to it, I'm realizing... After East London and the cutie cats, we went to Addo Elephant Park. We rented a car and stayd in a safari tent that overlooked the park. We didn't get to see elephants from our tent, unfortunately, but we did get within a few metres of them in the car. Scary, but awesome. We saw close to 100 elephants in our day and a half in the park. It was Joel's turn to be in heaven. Elephants are wonderful creatures and it was really neat to be so close to them and just sit and watch them. Sometimes we would sit in the same spot for 30 minutes, just watching them eat, protect their young and move around. We will definitely be comign back here. After Addo, we came here to Oudtshoorn. On our way to the hostel, we got a tour of an ostrich farm. I got to ride an ostrich! It was craziness, pure insanity. I was unsure about doing it (didn't want to hurt the bird), but Joel was disappointed that he's too heavy to do it, so he wante dot live vicariously through me. It was a cool experience. I've got the video proof that I screamed my head off the whole time I was on the bird. You've got to do it once in a lifetime, right? Tomorrow we're off to pet cheetahs (eeeeeeeeeee!!), the only large wild cat that purrs. I'm pretty pumped (can you tell?). Hopefully we'll get some more photos up sooner or later. M.