I love spring break. In fact I love spring break so much I decided to take two this year. For the first one I was in Springfield, IL working... boring. For the second time around I went on the Garden Route with my program. I would say this time around was significantly better.
On this trip we stayed in backpackers (in the U.S. or Europe we would call them hostels). South Africa has some very nice backpackers. When you are in Europe or the U.S. you never know what you're going to get... there are some very nice hostels and some very shady ones. In South Africa you can rest assured you will be staying in a pretty nice place for under $15. This picture was taken right outside of the first one we stayed at. Pretty sweet, eh?
Some of us ventured along the beach and had a lovely photo shoot...
This is me, Heather, and Brooke.
Somebody said to look like a beach model and I guess we all took that in a different way...
One of the optional activities on the trip was a canopy tour via zip line. It was pretty fun. We had 10 different zip lines that we went on that took us all over the wooded area. Some of them were only 20-30 feet and others were almost 300. We started out small and we were supposed to learn how to brake. I was never quite able to stop myself and by the time we got to the last ones I was pretty sore from zipping straight into trees. I was a bit like George of the jungle, he ran into trees a lot too.
It was a very full 6 days. In total I did...
-Monkey land, a park full of monkeys. (although we couldn't touch them so it wasn't as cool as the one in Kenya)
-The world's largest Bungee! (more later)
-An elephant park. Where I got to feed and hug the elephants.
-Riding a crazy horse. No pictures but I might have a whole new post about that one too. It was definitely an African experience.
-Trip to a cat park. Leopards, cheetahs, and tons of big cats (oh my). I'm pretty sure this is where my parent's cat Bill belongs... in the wild, among her fellow wild cats.
-Bird Sanctuary
-Ostrich farm.
-A Rastafarian township where we got to learn about the spiritual use of weed among other things. It was interesting to say the least.
-Canopy zip-line think.
-A tour through a pretty sweet cave.
- and lots of relaxing on the beach :)
I'd say it was a pretty successful trip.
On this trip we stayed in backpackers (in the U.S. or Europe we would call them hostels). South Africa has some very nice backpackers. When you are in Europe or the U.S. you never know what you're going to get... there are some very nice hostels and some very shady ones. In South Africa you can rest assured you will be staying in a pretty nice place for under $15. This picture was taken right outside of the first one we stayed at. Pretty sweet, eh?
Some of us ventured along the beach and had a lovely photo shoot...This is me, Jon, and Heather.
They're pretty awesome and they live with me at the pool house.
They're pretty awesome and they live with me at the pool house.
This is me, Heather, and Brooke.
Somebody said to look like a beach model and I guess we all took that in a different way...
One of the optional activities on the trip was a canopy tour via zip line. It was pretty fun. We had 10 different zip lines that we went on that took us all over the wooded area. Some of them were only 20-30 feet and others were almost 300. We started out small and we were supposed to learn how to brake. I was never quite able to stop myself and by the time we got to the last ones I was pretty sore from zipping straight into trees. I was a bit like George of the jungle, he ran into trees a lot too.
I didn't get a picture of me zipping but luckily one of my friends did so I stole it from her...
I was going fast so it's a bit blurry.
This is Mike getting eaten by wild African birds at the bird sanctuary.
He's the assistant director and he has big hair...
Another beach shot outside of another one of our backpackers.
I was going fast so it's a bit blurry.
This is Mike getting eaten by wild African birds at the bird sanctuary.
He's the assistant director and he has big hair...
Another beach shot outside of another one of our backpackers.
That's me petting a baby cheetah.
It purred...
This was at the 2nd backpackers we stayed at It was amazingly beautiful too. While we were here our group caught some kind of stomach bug (it wasn't from food either). We were a group of 35 and we had a total of 21 people who got really, really sick. Luckily it only lasted between 24 and 36 hrs... and I never caught it.
It purred...
This was at the 2nd backpackers we stayed at It was amazingly beautiful too. While we were here our group caught some kind of stomach bug (it wasn't from food either). We were a group of 35 and we had a total of 21 people who got really, really sick. Luckily it only lasted between 24 and 36 hrs... and I never caught it.
and another beach.
This was the bridge that I jumped off of :)
I'll have another post about that once I figure out how to get those pictures uploaded.
This was the bridge that I jumped off of :)I'll have another post about that once I figure out how to get those pictures uploaded.
It was a very full 6 days. In total I did...
-Monkey land, a park full of monkeys. (although we couldn't touch them so it wasn't as cool as the one in Kenya)
-The world's largest Bungee! (more later)
-An elephant park. Where I got to feed and hug the elephants.
-Riding a crazy horse. No pictures but I might have a whole new post about that one too. It was definitely an African experience.
-Trip to a cat park. Leopards, cheetahs, and tons of big cats (oh my). I'm pretty sure this is where my parent's cat Bill belongs... in the wild, among her fellow wild cats.
-Bird Sanctuary
-Ostrich farm.
-A Rastafarian township where we got to learn about the spiritual use of weed among other things. It was interesting to say the least.
-Canopy zip-line think.
-A tour through a pretty sweet cave.
- and lots of relaxing on the beach :)
I'd say it was a pretty successful trip.
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Vicky I hope you take good care of yourself. I keep leaving comments, but they never make it to the web site. Hopefully this will????
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