Most of you who have known either me or Christina for any length of time know about how horrible our honeymoon was.  I think it was exactly a year ago that we were preparing to get robbed from our hotel room, and that was after the bulldozers, the bugs, and the crazy buses.  We hadn't yet experienced missing our flight home, but that was soon to come.  Since then we've considered writing a book, or at least Oprah, about the worst honeymoon in the history of the world.

Happily now, however, redemption has come.  We were in a place called Oudtshoorn for our first anniversary, staying at a game reserve.  We left on Friday and got back Tuesday evening, and below is a list of everything that we did.  Ready?  Here we go:

1. Stayed in an air-conditioned tent with the most comfortable bed ever
2. With a family of seven hippos swimming about 20 yards away
3. Rode an ostrich (well, it was just Christina.  But I got some great pics!)
4. Went cave-diving up something called "The Devil's Chimney"
5. Fed an elephant with our hands
6. Saw giraffes about 30 yards away
7. Watched wildebeests fight like they were on "Wild Kingdom"
8. Petted a cheetah
9. Cage-dived with nine-foot Nile Crocodiles

So that more or less encompasses our time in Oudtshoorn.  We'll be working on getting some pictures up in the next couple of days, and Christina will soon post an article about things she's learned after one year of marriage, and how weird it feels to already have celebrated an entire year.  But my job as the husband is just to inform all of you about all of the incredibly cool things we did on our trip.  So there you go. 

Also, I've been having some issues getting our newsletter out to my half of the email list.  I apologize for that.  Hopefully by the end of the day, that will be remedied.  So be looking for it!