It is 12:00 am and I just finished packing my bags for the big hop across the pond to South Africa! When I say pond, I mean the Atlantic Ocean. Yes, Jeff and I depart at 6:30 am tomorrow morning from LAX for a nice 5 hour flight to NY JFK airport. Only to then get onto a plane that will be our home for the next 17 hours - an 8 hour flight to Senegal, a two hour stop off to refuel (not allowed to deplane) and then another 7 hours to Cape Town, South Africa! Wahoo...don't worry we are prepared for the long journey - Nintendo DS (thanks to Lyndsey), Sudoku, books, magazines, snacks, medicines, neck pillows and more! Once we arrive in South Africa our travels take us along the coast. We begin in Cape Town, drive to Knysna, then to Jeffrey's Bay, all the way up to Durban, and then back down to a small city near Port Elizabeth, Kenton-on-Sea, for my friend Melinda's wedding. It's going to be amazing! We will be sure to take tons of pictures, gather many stories and try to experience the culture to the fullest. I can't wait to get back and tell you all about it. I still can't believe I am going to South Africa!!! Also, looking at this map, does anyone else think it is strange that there is randomly another country in the middle of South Africa - Lesotho???
Wish us luck on our once in a lifetime, big vacation during my Life As A Wife!!
2 comments:
yay! south africa! it's finally here.
here are my instructions:
1. eat meat
2. bring back an elephant tusk for me
3. enjoy the DS
4. take a picture of jeff with a sign for jeffrey's bay
5. say hi to random lesotho
6. shoot an african animal
7. come home in one piece
can't wait to hear all about it! (also, i don't think this counts as a once in a lifetime vacation if you've also been to fiji in the past 12 months. you guys are crazy vacationers.)
I just happened upon your blog today and read you were leaving for South Africa. What an adventure! One of my college roommates joined the peace corps a few years back and was a teacher in Lesotho for 2 years! Funny coincidence =) Good luck on your trip and have a blast!
~nicole
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