We Made It!

Here we are leaving for the airport in Chicago:

We actually made it to Africa! It was quite the adventure, but overall, everything went very well. We hopped a bus to O'Hare and made our flight on time. Our airline randomly flagged us for security, which meant we got a nice pat down when going through the security line. I was not happy about it, but it seems that it is an airline regulation. The flight to London took 8 hours. I slept very little of it, but managed to be awake enough to take the tube into London to hang out with Adele. All in all, it was a great day. It was really cold, so we tried to stay mostly inside. We enjoyed a coffee shop, seeing Buckingham Palace, riding a real double decker bus, accidently going the wrong way on the bus and getting to go to Herrods (no I didn't buy anything), having a meal at a Japanese noodle restaurant, and checking out the British museum before hopping the tube back to Heathrow. Adele is a friend I met in Japan while doing the JET programme, and it was really great to see her again after two and a half years. Here are some photos from London:





The flight to Cape Town was 12 hours. By the time we boarded this flight, I was for once actually tried enough to sleep on the plane. I think I slept about half the flight. Once we got to Cape Town, we took a taxi to our hostel. Its in a very quite area of town located on an eco village. We made a point to take it very slow today. Besides napping and showering, we took a short trip to the grocery store and had lunch in the park, as well as taking a nice walk around the eco village. We will probably take the train into the city center tomorrow and check out what there is to do there. All in all it was a safe trip over, and we hope the rest of our trip goes as smoothly!