Swakopmund

On the ride from Sesriem there were lots of ostriches.  Mostly they were just lone, but at one point we saw a whole herd; there must have been 30.  On the way we stopped at a place called Solitaire.  It's called Solitaire because there is a dead tree in the middle of it.  They also had a very nice bakery.  At the bakery we met a ground squirrel and decided to name her "Karen" because she walked on her tippy toes like Karen Kain, the ballerina.
In the evening we went to a restaurant called "The Tug".  It is a very nice seafood restaurant with all kinds of fish.  I had a Norwegian salmon steak and my mom had a local fish called Kabeljou.  It was very, very nicely cooked with lots of interesting spices. 
The next day I went quad biking in the sand dunes.  My mom didn't come because she is not a quad bike fan.  It was really fun because we went out to the dunes very deep and also got some amazing views that you don't get from the hiking trails.
The next morning me and my mom went hot air ballooning.  The pilot just floated up the one mountain and when we came up the other side we were really, really high.  It was a very cool experience, but contrary to what you would expect, very hot because of the burners that keep shooting fire up into the balloon.  Afterwards we went to Alliance Francaise where they had an art exhibit and I met a bunch of brothers that were all dressed in their karate outfits and came in and started doing all the katas.  At one point they saw my iPod Touch and were all immediately mesmerized by "Fruit Ninja."  They also taught me how to use a rip stick (a kind of skateboard with only 2 wheels).
In the morning we went on a desert tour.  It was led by a man named "Tommy" and he came and told us all about the desert and the animals that were there.  At one point he drove us down the steep side of a dune in his big jeep and it felt like we were going to tip over forwards.  I learned a lot about all the animals and snakes there.  At one point he found a clump of sand that was black and was completely magnetic and he took a big magnet and took the iron fragments out of the sand until he had a big clump of pitch black metal shavings it looked like. 
The next day my mom and I went sand boarding.  It's like sledding except it must be twice as fast and it's on the dunes which are very high.  They used a speed gun and timed us on the last run and I was timed at 69 kilometers per hour in the beginning of the descent which means I got faster as I descended.  My mom went 64 kmh and the fastest run they ever had was 84 kmh (they probably had a back wind).