After an overnight flight from Cairo, we arrived to the country where we would spend the next 3 weeks - South Africa, my 30th country. My dad had hyped up the World Cup for almost a year, so it was great to finally arrive. I was supporting 3 teams....USA for my daddy, Brasil for my mommy, and Italy, because that is where I was born. Besides soccer, we were going to see lots of wildlife as well, so I was really excited. After picking up the tickets to our 5 matches at the airport, daddy picked up our rental car. It was kinda strange as he was driving on the opposite side of the car. We stayed at the Purple Palms hostel in Kempton Park, outside of Johannesburg, which was really close to the airport. I
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