Highlights:- Eating my first and only spinach and feta pie at the pavillion
- The people we stayed with who had a braai all ready to go when we arrived
- Our roommates from the animal kingdom: Dogs and Cockroaches
(sorry...this is actually from phezulu the next day. Don't you want to eat at that table?)Highlights:
- Nursing Tracy back to health after a long night of bathroom visits; chilling with the cockroaches
- Super warm weather at the beach!
- Finally touching the Indian Ocean
Highlights:- The Zulu dancer that reminded me of Scott (the one on the left)...yes, Mary Ann's Scott
- Holding the biggest Python I've ever held (I almost cried)
- Seeing "wild" animals on a cheap 2 hour drive
Highlights:- Visiting the Amanzimtoti ward again and all the sisters that pretended to remember me. Very kind of them
- Hitting the Toti beach that my missionary flat was on and finally touching the water (no fly eggs in my eye, but a wave did manage to drench my skirt)
- Visiting the Botha's
- Dinner and FHE with sis Ngidi, Thembisile and Jabu. Best night of the trip because of them
Highlights:- Driving dangeresquely to the Indian market in downtown Durban
- Being blown away by the smell of spices
- Discovering my most hated road interchage in the world as we tried to find my Companion
- The "raping" window cleaner at the stoplight
- Driving long and late hours to the Drakensberg mountains and our Hostel we stayed at
Highlights:- Possibly the most sun I have ever gotten
- Most amazing views I have ever seen
- The 250 meter bouldering portion of the hike that almost did me in and made me ornery
- Chain ladders that brought us down the cliffs
- The sweet sockline momento my sunburn left
Highlights:- The petrol station that could not get any of our credit cards to work
- Spending some one on one time with Kay (my comp) after we dropped Stacey and Tracy at the beach
- Finding Pinky's (a member) house in a miraculous manner and finding her at home, also in a miraculous manner
- One last cooling dip of my sunburned legs in the Indian ocean and we waved goodbye
Highlights:
- Midnight 11 hour flight. Need I say more
- 1am dinner. Who eats at 1am?!
- Being the last flight allowed out of Amsterdam before the airport closed for days
- Arriving at Minneapolis at 5pm, getting our luggage, going through customs, checking our luggage and going through security in time to still sprint to our 5:15 flight
- Somehow our luggage was not lost in all of that!
- Sleeping in my own bed for approx. 10 blissful hours that night
That's it! Too painfully long? ....now back to real life, I guess
4 comments:
Nice pics! Except the nasty cockroach. So was it the Zulu dancer's belly or his orneriness that reminded you of Scott? :) Also, I want to hear more about the "raping" window cleaner.
I'm so glad that you guys had so much fun. I have discovered in my heart that I need to take a trip to South Africa.
10 points for use of the word dangeresque. Also, I wish I could have gone to the ZCC.
the cockroaches and i did become very close that night...and i totally forgot about the crazy window washer! that was awesome! haha...can we go back now?? real life is not nearly as fun.
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