We made it!

Hello everyone! We made it safely to South Africa yesterday (Saturday) morning around 8:00 am our time. Everything was pretty smooth with the flights... just a few delays here and there. Hein, the leader from SCAS, and George, Casper's best friend, picked us up from the airport. From there we went to Spur, South Africa's closest resemblance of a Chili's, and ate lunch with Casper's mom and brother. Then we walked around the mall to buy some bare necessities, but Luke came up empty handed with his long john search.

Once we all realized that we were about to pass out, we decided to go back to "The Island" where we are staying and take a "quick" power nap that lasted two and half hours. By the way, in Afrikaans, the place we are staying is called "Die Eiland", but fortunately it is pronounced "Dee Island". We woke to Hein wandering through our rooms wondering if we were ready to go, which obviously we weren't, so we hopped up, put on about three more layers of clothes, and headed out into the frigid cold. We went over to Hein's house to watch the semi-finals rugby match in the Super 14 tournament and got to eat our first amazing home-cooked South African meal. After this we went home and were all sound asleep by 9:30 pm!