so yeah... its a little late

I apologize for not posting on Sunday like I said I would but I was so exhausted and then I tried to write about my entire trip buuuuut no one wants to read a novella on the computer… except for maybe Katy Westhoff and that’s only because she is wonderful. So I will just put up part of what I wrote and then next week I’ll write about my week and my trip. Sound good?

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Oh boy!! Where do I start!?! I got back last Saturday night from a week long road trip across the southern cape of South Africa. To make this easier on me to write and easier for you to read I will do sub headings that way you know where I was when I was doing something. I’ll go in chronological order too, meaning we begin with Cape Town.

CAPE TOWN

Here is where we started after an almost 12 hour drive from Pretoria. And here is where we got on a two lane undivided highway. Trucks passing trucks while a car is passing both of them… THERE ARE ONLY TWO LANES YOU STUPID PEOPLE! Stay on the road! There is a reason why the accident free days count signs are blank! Any who, we went through some mountain passes as well, and it was really pretty so it was a nice distraction from crazy people on the road, although the curvy here and the curvy there made me a little bit nauseous. When we got into town and we easily found our hotel that was called Urban Chic (seeing as how it was in the heart of down town the name is fitting), very kitschy, there was no door to the bathroom just a sliding door next to the tub. I slept on an air mattress next to the window so I got to look out as the loudest party bus I have ever heard passed by our window, BUT I also got the best view of Table Mountain (look it up, its nifty!) Word of advice though, don’t go in to the heart of Cape Town on a Saturday night and/or payday weekend if you want to sleep. It was cool though, there were a lot of buildings that were modeled off the buildings in the French Quarter of New Orleans and the building across from ours was painted really cool, it was called Mama Africa.
So that was where we stayed, but what we did was go see Robin Island, and for those of you who don’t know Robin Island was the prison where Nelson Mandela and many other political prisoners were held during apartheid. Now though, Robin Island is a World Heritage site and there are about 1000 people who live on the island (as residents, not prisoners, they shut the prison down a while ago). Their school consists of three teachers and 20 students from preschool to 6^th grade and the older kids get ferried off to the mainland for school, all 8 of them.
The next day we set off to Mossel Bay, but we made a few stops along the way first. Stop one was Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope. Cape of Good Hope is called so because it was where many ships first saw land but could not land because of all the rocks so if they did try to dock they would smash of their boat. It is also the most South Western point of Africa. So we hiked to the top of the point and thought we saw a whale, but it was just a reef. Then from this stop we skipped on over to Cape Agulas. This is not only the Sothern most point of the African continent but it is also where the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans meet.  So basically I was in two oceans at one time, and while the Indian Ocean is supposed to be significantly warmer than the Atlantic… they were both pretty cold.  And that was the Cape Town portion, even though we didn’t spend much time actually in CT…

 *** I'm working on pictures to put up on FB, there are a lot to go through***