Day 3

Today was another travel day.  I got up at 6:00 so that I could see everybody off.  Beer and his friend had to leave for school at 7:00.  So I wanted to be sure to be up to say goodbye.  Once they got up and were ready to leave, we said goodbye and they headed to school.  Trevor and I then went and got ready to leave. We said goodbye to our host and jumped onthe road.  We had about a three and half hour drive to get to Jo'burg.  The scenery was nice as we drove.  The route we were taking was through some of the mountains and so it was very scenic for the time of morning.  We finally got to Jo'burg at around 12:30.  The first goal we had was to get our bags checked in.  Since I was able to offload some of the weight that I was carrying, I made weight this time. Trevor however had two bags, and on domestic flights you are only allowed to check in one of those.  So he had to go pay for it.  Other than that is wasn't a horrible airport experience.  We got there about five hours early.  So after we got our tickets we headed to go grab some lunch.  We went to Wimpy burger and got a quick bite to eat.  After that we found a place to sit and just chilled for a couple of hours.  At around 2:00 we headed through security and went and found our gate.  Once there we sat for a while.  Trevor took a nap and I sat and waited.  At 5:30 it was finally time to board our plane.  We got on and took a hour and fifty minute flight to Cape Town.  In Cape Town we found our luggage and started to head to the entrance.  We had no clue who would be meeting us.  We thought it would be Clark, but didn't know for sure.  As we were walking through the reception area, we heard a "Ryan, Trevor?" Turned and it was Fouad, one of the leaders.  We had walked right by him.  We quickly exchanged pleasantries and then headed to the parking lot.  The majority of the group was already there and so we were going to die eiland to meet up, or so we thought.  When we got to die eiland wefound out that we would actually be spending the first few days at a retreat location in the mountains near Wellington.  However, we were first going to wait for Casper and that group to arrive before we left.  So Fouad and and I headed back to the Cape Town airport to pick them up.  We got there about thirty minutes before the flight was supposed to land.  I hadn't eaten since around 1:00 and it was 10:00 so I ran over to Steers and grabbed a quick bite to eat.  After I got my food we walked over to the arrival area and there was our peeps walking through the door.  I also saw some of the other people I met last year and so I was able to say hi to them.  We then got all of their luggage loaded and headed back to die eiland.  At die eiland we grabbed a small bag and packed for a couple of days of activity.  We then locked up the rest of the luggage and headed to Wellington.  We had about a hour and half drive up to the site and so we arrived at around 2:00 in the morning.  It was such a blessing to finaly be in one place.  We grabbed our stuff from the car and headed to bed.