DAY 158

Today is a travel day...... you know what that means. A good laugh, that's what it means, LOL :) Well I'm sorry to say that I will somewhat be disappointing you all today. Only a little blunder happened. The reason for the little drama today is because the flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Windhoek, Namibia is only about 2 hours. So there isn't really the time for anything to happen. So I slept in till the last possible moment I could and then got dressed. I waked up the road to the bakery that Marnie and Jeremy kept raving about. After eating brunch I came back and packed up the rest of my stuff, with just zipping up my last bag whn my ride to the airport came up. I drove to the airport with two other people and then went to find which counter was for my flight. So I walk in and look at the screen to se were to go, the only blunder that I had at the airport was that I started going the wrong way down the corridor. I figured out my blunder pretty quickly, and turned around. After checking-in I went to a book store, bought a book and postcards, and stamps. I got throught the check-in and security faster than planned, so I had plenty of time to relax. After writing the postcards I went to the little post box next to the store and mailed them off. Before headed to the gate I stopped to get a hot chocolate and a snack for the flight. I had a smooth and quick flight to Winhoek, Namibia. I arrived at the airport and got my bags that weren't first, but thankfully were in one of the first couple batches, so I didn't have to wait long. Before doing anything I went to the money changing place to change some money. I give the lady both Euros and Rands. She shanges the Euros and then asks me, with complete seriousness, "What do you want me to do with these?" I chuckle and look at her and am like, "what do you mean, what should you should do with them?" Your a money changing place, so I guess the answer would be to CHANGE THE MONEY, lol :) She then tells me that South African Rands are accepted currancy here (Namibia used to be owned by South Africa). She tells me this as if it's like 2 x 2 and I of course should know this little bit of information. Not that she's mocking me or anything, more just straight foreward thought I should know or something. I get into a taxi and tell hime the name of my hotel. We then drive for about an hour or so, but feels more like 2 or 3 hours. The reason for the ride feeling like it took forever, was that we are in the middle of no whaere, so the road is long and straight, with no changing scenery. Oh, the scenery by the way is really pretty. It technically is a desert, but has some desert-y trees, some random bushes, etc... It's pretty baron, but at the same time very majestic and very like the scenery you would see in the Lion King. We arrive at the Windhoek Country Club Resort and a porter comes and gets my bags. I then see that I don't have enough cash on me, so I go inside to the ATM. I get one of my debit cards out and pop it into the machine. I put in the PIN # and then instead of going to the screen asking how much money you want, a messages comes on saying that something isn't working, etc... and that I have to contact a bank branch, so on and so on. I then realize that I put in the debit card that I had to close the account on a week or so ago. See I didn't want to throw it away, but I never got around to putting it in another safe place, that is other than my wallet. I then have to get someone from concierege to call the bank to have someone come and get it. This is because since the card is of a closed account, the ATM ate it, for security reasons I guess. Well I felt bad for the taxi driver and didn't want him to wait any longer, so I had the front desk pay and then have them put it on my bill. Well since nobody from the bank could come until later, the front desk said they would call my room when someone arrived. I then went to my room were there was a fruit basket amenity there, with a little welcome card adressed to me. Now maybe in this hotel the give every guest a personiled card with an amenity, but in my expreience, working in room service in oneof the best hotel on South Beach, even the "not so special fruit basket" is not given out to every guest. After this I went out and spent a couple hours out by the pool reading some more of my book. The pool area was really cool. See the hotel is in sort of a "C" shape and having the middle of it be were the entrance is.Then the open part of the shape is were the golf course starts, and in the middle of the shape is this green lawn with a winding river making a circle in the middle. The land that is in the inside of this river is were the kidney shaped pool is located. In the middle-ish/end of the pool there is this huge hollow rock formation, with a waterfall. The part that I liked was that to get to the "island" you had to walk over the huge rock, that was carved ino a bridge, to cross the river. A couple hours later I went to the front desk to get my card back. By this time it was gettting to be dinner time, so I went back to my room and ordered room service. Since I didn't really need to do anything tomorrow, I stayed up watching TV for a bit.