Arrival in Cape Town

Lois - Met Jeff in Amsterdam at 6:30 am for our connecting flight to Capetown. Regardless of the hour he had taken advantage KLM's complimentary drinks and was sporting an admirable collage of red wine and vodka orange tyedye.

Jeff - The flight to Cape Town was great with each of us having personal tvs to get us through the long trip. Who knew that the most entertainment would come right at the beginning of the flight when I noticed Lois' sleeping apparatus, it was an eye mask (as many use on planes) however this one was made to look like monkey eyes with a big yellow crown on top. The rest of us quickly gathered and our snickering led to Lois being awoken by a large group of passengers pointing and laughing at her...if only we took a picture.


Andrew - Upon arriving we got the first surprise of the trip. I hadnt prepared myself to drive on the left...and have the driver side reverse. With a standard car this is not so easy. Between the reverse side of the road, shifting gears with my opposite hand, and driving on hilly,winding roads and almost 24 hours of travel it is a miracle we made it to Jes' house. In our first 10 minutes we did 2 things we probably should not. A. In a empty parking garage I said fairly loundly "Jes, you need cash? we all have tons of cash on us." then when we left theparking we were trying to find Jes' car we pulled over to the side of the road and put our hazards on...I am pretty sure you are not supposed to do that. Either way we made to here safely and I have only hit 2 curbs in the day of driving. Speaking of Jes's house...this could be the nicest place any of us have ever stayed in. It is a 3 bedroom 5 bathrooms house in Camps Bay...it is halfway up table mountain and looks up the mountain and the ocean...See some of the pics to see where we are staying...its awesome...It is 50m from an entrance to the table mountain national park.










Jess - I would like to refer to this part as the best part of the trip, but considering it's only day 1, I'm sure there will be quite a few more highlights. We drove 45mins out of Cape Town today to Boulders Beach, where we went swimming with penguins, yep, penguins! Did we say sharks in the first blog post? We meant penguins. (No just kidding, shark cage diving is Sunday's activity!)Anyone who knows me will know how big of a deal this was for me! The water was freezing, but having the penguins surrounding us quickly made up for it. Check out the pictures and the awesome underwater video Andrew took.

Jeff - After a quick pizza lunch and a stop at the grocery store we headed home for a sunset hike up to the base of Table Mountain. It was gorgeous to the naked eye however Lois is convinced her photo's make it look better than it actually was (this is when I became convinced that Lois was a compulsive liar). We can't wait to make the trip back tomorrow and see the view from the summit.




Day 2 has a lot to live up to...Africa is awesome so far...


Jeff Word of the day - Dramastic