We haven't done anything too exciting the past few days - just lots of eating and wining. Yesterday we ended stage 2 of our adventure (stage 1 for the Polei) and traveled from CPT to JNB, and then drove the 40 min or so to Pretoria, where we'll be staying until tomorrow. By far the highlight of yesterday was renting our car. The car was reserved in Beth's name, but neither Beth nor Sarah is terribly excited about driving, and I kinda love driving here, so we looked into adding me. We figured it would be like home, where it's x amount per day. No no, it's only 220R, or about 30USD, for the entire 10 day rental period. Thus I was added. Moreover, the rental agent went to get keys and came back to inform us that sadly there were no cars in our class available, so we were upgraded to a BMW. And not only was it a BMW, but it's a brand new BMW with 14km on it (about 4 miles). Awesome.
Rather than bore everyone with less exciting deets, we thought we'd take this lull to name some of the things we love and dislike about SAfrica...
Loves: cheap cell phone that has a converter for currency and temperature (among other things); the lawlessness of the roads - lines, when they exist, mean nothing - 2 lane roads are really 3 lane roads, and sometimes 4 lane roads, and speed limits are just for fun; feta cheese - I hate feta at home, but the feta here is really good (mike hates at home - we all love here); 3 course breakfast prepared daily at our B&Bs; amarula (esp. Jen or Sarah); penguins, especially when they jump or waddle; "Ayoba!"; seeing people proudly wearing national team shirts, jackets, hats and scarves from around the world; Safrican bacon; friendliness of various B&B owners; springbok carpaccio; Safrican pizza, esp with fresh avos on top
Dislike: weather - entire time in CPT and the winelands was colder and/or rainy and/or snowy; the abundance of mushrooms and olives in this country and, frequently, at our dinner tables - barf (mike and sarah); the lack of quality internets and clear televisions (esp Mike); Mike's use of the word "ridonk-i-donk" (esp Jen)
Rather than bore everyone with less exciting deets, we thought we'd take this lull to name some of the things we love and dislike about SAfrica...
Loves: cheap cell phone that has a converter for currency and temperature (among other things); the lawlessness of the roads - lines, when they exist, mean nothing - 2 lane roads are really 3 lane roads, and sometimes 4 lane roads, and speed limits are just for fun; feta cheese - I hate feta at home, but the feta here is really good (mike hates at home - we all love here); 3 course breakfast prepared daily at our B&Bs; amarula (esp. Jen or Sarah); penguins, especially when they jump or waddle; "Ayoba!"; seeing people proudly wearing national team shirts, jackets, hats and scarves from around the world; Safrican bacon; friendliness of various B&B owners; springbok carpaccio; Safrican pizza, esp with fresh avos on top
Dislike: weather - entire time in CPT and the winelands was colder and/or rainy and/or snowy; the abundance of mushrooms and olives in this country and, frequently, at our dinner tables - barf (mike and sarah); the lack of quality internets and clear televisions (esp Mike); Mike's use of the word "ridonk-i-donk" (esp Jen)
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CANT BELIEVE YOU WERE AT THAT GAME!!!
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