Welcome to South Africa

So the trip started when we flew out of Dallas.  It was another loooonnnggg flight from DFW to Heathrow.
It seems to be my luck that I am alway by little kids on airplanes.  There was a little Indian girl who probably
wasn't more than four years old sittin in front of me.  Well this wouldn't have been a big problem exept that the first hour and a half of the flight was without movies.  The entertainment system was not working.  I thought I was going to go crazy.  I couldn't sleep, I didn't feel like reading, and my phone didn't have a charge.  Luckily, they finally got the system fixed and so I was able to do what everybody wants to do on airplanes... watch movies. I think I watched three full movies and half of another.  Needless to say I didn't get much sleep at all.  When we landed in London it was an overcast day.  I can't tell you how cold it was outside because for this trip we didn't have to change terminals.  So we made our way to the departure area and headed through security again.  Security in Heathrow is always an adventure. We always find a way to make it take extra time.  Last time is was Hein's Playbook that I forgot to take out of my bag, this time Trevor got picked to check the entire contents of his bag.  So after I got through security I stood waiting for Trevor to get done.  As I waited I started talking to a security guy standing nearby.  I mentioned that is was just our luck that the first time Trevor was traveling abroad he would get picked for the random full search.  He chuckled, and I mentioned that we should have a little fun with him.  So he asked me what his surname (Last name) was.  He then walked over to Trevor, who had his back to me, and said "Mr. Wait once you are done here can I have a word with you?"  Seeing the look of shock on Trevor's face, made me lose it. Once he was done he walked over expecting to have to answer a bunch of questions.  We then let him know that everything was ok and got a good laugh out of his reaction.  After we left security we went to go look for a nice quiet place to take a nap.  Well that only lasted about an hour.  We woke up and found ourselves surrounded by people headed to Barcelona.  Needless to say we didn't say there long.  We walked over to the other side of the terminal and found another place to camp out.  Well an hour later we found ourselves surrounded again.  We got up and walked around for a while. After we stretched we decided to try again.  We found yet another quiet place to be.  This time we got about a two hour nap, But again we woke up surrounded.  At this time we decided that it was time to get something to eat and so we grabbed a sandwitch and then walked around until it was time to go to our gate.  When we went to the gate the first thing I did was look and see how many kids were going to be on the plane.  There were quite a few. So when we boarded I looked to see how many were around me.  There were a few...  It seems to be my luck that I will always sit by little kids.  Well the good thing was that this flight I was going to sleep.  After they served dinner I took a sleeping pill.  So once they turned out the lights, I was out.  I was able to get about six hours of sleep.  So pretty much when I woke up they were serving breakfast and then fourty minutes later we were landing.  After we landed we got our bags and headed ff to get our car.  Once we got our car we began our journey to my friend Conraad "Beer" Van Vuuren's house.  Well we got lost.  We hadn't even left Johannesburg and we were already going the wrong way.  The good thing is that I was able to get directions before we left that airport, and so after an about face and a couple of minutes of driving I was able to find the correct road and start our five hour journey.  Now I wish I could say that it was eventful; however, the first hour and a half of driving was like going through Abilene. It was brown, dry, and flat. Trevor only made it about an hour and a half, and then he was out.  So I turned up the radio and kept driving.  We finally pulled into Komatipoort at around 1:00 in the afternoon.  It felt like it was 9:00 at night.  I was exhausted.  Even though I told myself that I wasn't going to take a nap I did.  A three hour one at that.  It was glorious. When I got up Beer's dad had fixed dinner and so we ate and talked for quite a while. Once we finished, it was time for a shower and bed.  So I took a sleeping pill and went to sleep.  And that concludes going to South Africa.