Well, we got here last night! I have no idea when, though.. my concept of time wasn't working after 30 hours and some 8,000 miles of traveling. We flew from Minneapolis-New York-Dakar, Senegal(refuel)-Johannesburg, South Africa-Cape Town!
First off, gotta tell you that Rev Run was on our flight from Minneapolis to New York-pretty sweet! Sara got a picture with him, so once I get it from her, I'll post it.
Once we got to New York, we had a 7 hour layover so we filled up with food and hung out in the food court for a few hours. The food on the flights was surprisingly good.. minus the somewhat soupy scrambled eggs with wierd mushrooms. The South African Airlines planes were pretty awesome.. we each had a tv in our headrest with our own choice of movies and we got free drinks! But the wine wasn't very good.
The airport at Johannesburg is crazy! We had no idea where our luggage was going but we finally found it, but then there is a ton of construction so we had nooo idea how to get to our next flight. Then some nice porters led us through the airport and then demanded lots of tips so they could buy some drinks after work. We ended up giving them alot of money.. oops!
We got into Cape Town sometime in the evening/night and met up with Aaron, Kate, Sephimo and Ajith. Then we went to our houses...my house is for student housing so its pretty bare bones compared to our other house across the street which is a bed and breakfast. We didnt do a whole lot last night, just ate pizza, took showers to get the plane grime off, hung out and went to bed.
First off, gotta tell you that Rev Run was on our flight from Minneapolis to New York-pretty sweet! Sara got a picture with him, so once I get it from her, I'll post it.
Once we got to New York, we had a 7 hour layover so we filled up with food and hung out in the food court for a few hours. The food on the flights was surprisingly good.. minus the somewhat soupy scrambled eggs with wierd mushrooms. The South African Airlines planes were pretty awesome.. we each had a tv in our headrest with our own choice of movies and we got free drinks! But the wine wasn't very good.
The airport at Johannesburg is crazy! We had no idea where our luggage was going but we finally found it, but then there is a ton of construction so we had nooo idea how to get to our next flight. Then some nice porters led us through the airport and then demanded lots of tips so they could buy some drinks after work. We ended up giving them alot of money.. oops!
We got into Cape Town sometime in the evening/night and met up with Aaron, Kate, Sephimo and Ajith. Then we went to our houses...my house is for student housing so its pretty bare bones compared to our other house across the street which is a bed and breakfast. We didnt do a whole lot last night, just ate pizza, took showers to get the plane grime off, hung out and went to bed.
Pictures!
Flying into New York
Flying into New York
Yay! So excited!
1 comment:
OMG again!!!
YOU ARE SOOOO LUCKY (AGAIN). SORRY THIS COMMENT IS SO SHORT BUT I GOTTA GO TO BED. IT'S LIKE 9:50PM OVER HERE!
-MEAGAN HEIN
YOUR COUSIN
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