Blogs from Camps Bay, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 3

Tuesday 26th October: I just posted that we are leaving for England on Friday, well I've just found out that soon we will be leaving to go to South Africa on November 6th! Now that is even better than cold old England! Tyler, I am so looking forward to sharing the pictures with you of the animals we'll see over there, can you believe it I'm going to see real live elephants and lions and crocodiles (although I'm not so excited about the crocodiles!). We will be staying in a nature reserve for 4 days called Kruger National Park. Look it up on the map, it's huge, one of the largest game reserves in Africa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruger_National_Park The park has lots of trees called the 'baobab tree', these trees live for hundreds of years and are so ... read more

The end is nearing and it definitely feels like it. Being the last few days of my vacation I’ve begun partying harder in the nights (if that is possible) but taking more relaxing days. Surprisingly, I woke up today at 10:30, only 4.5 hours after sleeping after a much intense night of partying. I grubbed on some yogurt and oats and then 12 of us headed down to play a little 6 v. 6 soccer. Everyone was stoked to play some soccer and we had a good intense game of 6 v 6 on little goals for about 90minutes. After sweating off the nights beers, some of us got smoothies, while I went and picked up some souvenirs for home. Then most of the guys went back home while Danny and I moved to the beach ... read more

It was pretty warm today. So the five of us: Evan, Orrin, Tanner, Maaike (my new dutch roommate pronounced Micah) and I spent the majority of the afternoon today on the beach. Clifton is a small town in between Sea Point and Camps Bay, with cliffs and houses/condos/apts on both sides of the road. When the tide isn't too high, there are these fabulous beaches that you walk down to. Today the waves were huge so most of Clifton's 4 beaches were taken over by higher tide and water, but we took a nice walk from Clifton beach 2 to Clifton 4 and played in the water and on the beach for a few hours. It was very nice and relaxing. I was a little chilly until I did a bit of running around, handstands and ... read more

Today I woke up at 11am still loving the vacation time. Not wearing a watch I don’t really ever know what time it is. I simply tell time by what World Cup game is currently on or next. A bunch of us hit up the same Clifton Beach I went to earlier this week, while two of the guys went to hit up some internet in the town since our internet connection back home was out. We played a little soccer at the beach and enjoyed the sun and then headed back home in time for the World Cup games. Definitely living life in between the soccer games we planned out the weekend and some fun touring events based on which games were to be played on which days and who was playing. We decided to ... read more

Today I woke up at 1pm, definitely loving the vacation and not having to wake up at 6:30 every morning, especially after a 5am night. The bathroom has two separate faucets one for hot water and one for old water which makes the morning rituals a little more interesting. I have to cup a little bit of cold water and then cup some hot water to get the warm water face rinse. After a longer than normal morning ritual due to the individual faucets, the girls decided to go to some super grocery store (walmart-like) and I initially thought I would go with them to get some soap and other amenities that I needed for civilized living, but decided that I would go to the beach on my first true day in Cape Town, being the ... read more