Time for the garden route! Avril picked us up at an agonizing 5:00 am. I think I “woke” up five minutes before she arrived (: lol. More liked rolled out of bed half asleep. We drove to pick up Marion, and had to stop inside for Miles….during his sleep, his earring had lodged itself deep inside his ear hole I guess you would call it. As Avril is a nurse, she pulled out her little handy dandy kit from the trunk and got it out of his ear, but not without some pain and blood. Eeh. She had to push it through the back of his ear. It didn’t look too good, but at least it was out. We drove for about two hours (I spent almost all of that time sleeping), and stopped for breakfast at this cute little place called the Country Pumpkin. Marion and Avril knew everyone, which ended up being a reoccurrence throughout the whole trip everywhere we stopped. It was nice since everyone seems to be friendlier if you’re with somebody they know and adore. We continued on our way, with our first stop being a couple hours later at a place called the Cango Caves. We were booked to go on an “adventure tour”. The caves were amazing. The main large section of the cave used to be used for concerts, which is so cool I think. We had to climb through the CRAZIEST spaces though, as we continued deeper into the cave. One was called the tunnel of love, and you had to walk sideways to squeeze though. Another was called the letter box, and you had to crawl on your stomach to get to it, and then use your arms to push yourself down the small hole into the larger cave space. Another was the chimney, and you had to figure out how to get your body into the tall space, and then climb it to get to the next part of the cave. It was very hot and damp, and wet in some places making it slippery and hard to climb around at times. It was very neat though. The next stop was the ostrich farm.
While we were sitting in the little barn waiting for the guy to finish his explanation about the ostriches, he handed miles three food pellets. Miles looked down at his hand not knowing what to do, and the tour guide says “you get the kiss the ostrich”. Miles howled in disbelief and completely refused, but couldn’t get out of it. We continued outside where we were supposed to feed the ostriches, and check out the dwarfed one (yes, they have a dwarfed ostrich lol). Then it was time for Miles big smooch. He was supposed to pucker his lips inside of his mouth (suck them in), and then put the three pellets in between his lips, while the huge ostrich comes over and pecks them from your face. It was so funny, and he was terrified! The bird ended up pecking his face instead of his mouth two times, which left him with “ostrich scars” hahaha. Since I wouldn’t feed the ostrich, the guide told me I would be the first one to RIDE the ostrich…uh oh…
It took the guy about five minutes to even convince me to stand up out of my seat. Once I did this, he also had to convince me to sit on the ostrich. Two men ran into the ostrich’s caged field, grabbed it by the neck, and put a bag over its face so that it couldn’t see. The ostrich immediately became completely calm and was able to be lead right over to the little “docking” station, where I was supposed to get on. I finally agreed after everyone chanting for me to just do it (urgh), and I climbed on top. The bag was still on top of its head, so he was still very calm and didn’t move. I was supposed to cross my feet under his belly so that I wouldn’t fall, while his wings lied over my thighs. I was also supposed to hold on to the wings and lean back so that I would be safe. I told him that I didn’t want to ride, just sit, and then of course the guide took the bag off of the ostrich’s head, and it backed straight of the docking station, ran in place to get its speed up, and took off in a circle around the pen. Ostrich’s can run up to 80 miles per hour if you weren’t aware….! The two wranglers were holding on and running right beside me for safety. I was in complete shock! I wasn’t prepared to ride the thing, let alone to experience how insanely it ran. I eventually fell off of the side of the thing (the two wranglers caught me and helped me to land on my feet) and I didn’t even know what to do with myself. Everyone was laughing SO hard, and I was half crying, half laughing, holding my face in my hands, as I staggered back to the seating area and straight into Marion’s arms. It took me a while to calm down from that one…I just completely wasn’t expecting it and was in total shock! Lol. After that, everyone teased me that I should buy some “Ostrich Choo’s” for defeating the thing.
We stopped to get lunch, and then arrived at our hotel in a town called “Wilderness”. It was right on the waterfront, and so beautiful. We all wanted to shower and rest for a little bit before we went for dinner. Avril and Marion took us to this cute little restaurant/bar called the Blue Olive. It was really nice and we had a lot of fun together. The bar had crazy decorated cowboy hats all over the place, so we all got suckered into trying them on..and taking cheesy pictures of course. When we returned to the hotel room, we played some word games to keep entertained, and just had fun. It was very enjoyable first night away. Lauren and Miles are both learning that turning a diva Barbie into a wilderness Barbie doesn’t work out so well. Silly guys…thinking I would change (: hehe
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