South Africa

The morning of my first day we all went out to eat at Harrie's Pancake house. We all ordered stuffed pancakes.  I got a dark chocolate mousse filled pancake...as you can probably guess it was very delicious. It was about $10 which is about 120 rands. After that we all went around looking at the stores in the strip district. One of the stores was a silk store and we learned how you make silk from silk worms. Will and I saw these amazing silk slippers that felt so soft and light on our feet. Our parents were cruel and did not allow us to purchase them,  despite the fact they were only 300 rands. 

Next we did our sightseeing and we went to see the potholes, which is an area composed of rock formations and waterfalls formed by glaciers. Will and I hopped off rocks and on one of them I absolutely failed and fell into the water.  Everyone laughed and I felt extraordinarily embarrassed. Our last adventure was the Big Swing. I did it with Will and the scary part wasn't when you were 'bout to fall off, it was when you're already falling and cursing thinking your back is going to break. When you're in panic mode you think it's going straight down when really you're going in an arc. When that huge drop was over we were lightly swinging and for a guy it really really hurts. Since it was such a long drop down we of course had to walk back up to the top on these suspiciously unstructured looking stairs. It was very tiring and as I was so cold, because I was still wet from the potholes epic failure of mine. 

The next day we woke up early and went on a safari drive through the Kruger National Park. We saw rhinos, hippos, giraffes, zebras, warthogs, elephants, baboons, Vervette monkeys (that had blue balls), crocodiles, impalas, fish eagles, water buffalo, and kudo. We sadly didn't see the lions which I was really hoping to see. It was seven hours and then dinner was awful African chicken nuggets. We then hopped the border into Mozambique and got into our wonderful Mozambican house greeted by our sassy, sarcastic, 6'3" Larson.