Brunk Dungee!!

Heya everyone!!

I leave you alone for a day, and no-one complains... what's with that?! You should all be hanging on every word that i say / type. That's how it's meant to be! So, why didn't i get in touch yesterday? Well, i don't think sitting on a bus all day is the cool thing to report on is it? Needless to say, the bus was fine - though there was an absence of hotties, which made the journey longer. A Brit couple were on there and spoke three times to each other the whole 9 hour journey. Wow, i'm feeling the love big style!! She wasn't that hot either... in case you were wondering...

So, where am i now? At Storm's River at a place called the Tube & Axe - a random name, and this place is literally in the middle of nowhere! We're deep in the bush and the place where we're staying is more akin to a Thai / Swiss ski chalet hybrid. It's cool, and distinctly African. It's also very hippy in the fact that nothing has locks - it all operates on trust. Fair enough i guess!

We got here quite late last night with the resolute aim of not drinking. That failed. Miserably. I was horrendously drunk last night - the bartender bought me some tequilas as i was giving him relationship advice haha. If there's one person on Earth not to trust with that... it's me. It's like asking the Pope which sexual position he prefers - generally, you're not going to get a good lesson. Oh well, tequila - it makes you happy! We drank SO much cider and tequila i was gone. Tried to see the stars out here... nothing still. Though that may have been due to the drink blurring everything up for me! We also met some awesome (and smoking) Australian sisters. Surely a fantasy right there?! We hung out most of the night with them... which again brought out my... "colourful" sense of humour. It seems i get quite Imperialistic around US and Oz folks - as WE settled THEM, and THEY owe US etc etc. It got laughs from the girls... so at least i can be thankful for that! Some random things are coming back to me about last night too... motor-mouth was firing off at top speed. I remember acting as the devil on a girl's shoulder when she was talking about her boyfriend... i'm such a nice guy haha. Brilliant night though - top craic, as would be said if i was Irish.

Cue a few hours sleep and waking with a RAGING hangover, and it's time to jump off a bridge. Yep - drunk bungee (now do you get the title?!). Honestly, looking at the floor whilst standing made me feel like i was dying... so the jump would prove interesting! Drastically trying to sober up i drank as much water as is humanly possible. Didn't work. We got to Bloukrans (the bridge) and some German lady says "you look pale... are you scared?" - i simply told her that i was crunk, and she laughed. Then muttered something in German, no doubt "stupid English punk kid" - actually i'm sure it was those EXACT words!

Skip a little bit and we're on the bridge - and i was first to jump. After having my flimsy foot couplers on, i moved to the edge and looked out at the 216m drop in front of me, then simply swan dived off the edge. Got to tell you, i LOVED free-falling. If you're going to jump off a building folks (you know, if your life gets THAT tough), then i recommend it. You'll have all the exhilaration before... SPLAT. Ok, i didn't splat, but bounced around quite a bit. The views, although beautiful, made no sense to my upside-down / drunk body. Still cool though. I now have a DVD and some photos of me swan diving my way off, so you'll get to see those soon enough!

Now we're just chilling waiting for our bus to arrive, as now the travelling steps up a notch as we have to high-tail it East at a rate of knots. Blasting through Port Elizabeth and Durban on route to our destination, St. Lucia - in the heart of Zululand. Looking for some culture and some hippos. I'll see if they really are hungry hungry buggers. I expect them to solely eat white pebbles, lest that board game has lied to me. It best not have. We should be there on Monday hopefully - so i'll probably report in then, or possibly from Durban if i have any musings for y'all.

Hope everyone's well back home yes? Needless to say, the country is going wrong in my absence. Oh well, you'll cope. Then i'll be back and make everything right again... just you wait. But 'til then... i'm living the dream folks!

Much love,

Aaron x