Spring Break. Part 1 of 4 or 5... The Drive.

If you look on a map you can see how far where i live, Pietermaritzburg, is from where we went on Spring Break, Cape Town. It is a long long 22 hour drive. We left after everyone had finished class on Friday and drove through the night (on the wrong side of the road!!!) until we got to this city called Port Elizabeth. When we got there around 6.30am the sun was just beginning to rise. It was unbelievable. There were a ton of fisherman lined up and it was so nice to get out of the car. I had a peanut butter and jelly breakfast on the beach as we watched people train for Ironman, which was happening the next day. So many bikers! The place was hopping and it was beautiful, but that wasn't our destination so we hopped back in the car for a couple more hours. We stopped at a few beautiful beaches with awesome rocks to climb on and saw some dolphins in the distance. Then we continued to drive until we got to Tsitsikama Backpackers in Storms River.

Storms River was a really peaceful place, it kind of seemed like we were there a little out of season. The backpackers seemed like a big house with a comfy family room and bar, we all felt right at home. When we got there we played a volleyball game and i passed out in a hammock. It is funny how sitting for hours makes you tired.

That next day I woke up early and went for a hike in the nature reserve, of course i got lost and started singing to myself out of boredom. Oh how i miss my ipod! On my way back up i met up with everyone for breakfast before we went on our canopy tour.

The canopy tour was sweet. We went on 10 different zip lines across the top of the Tsitsikama National Forest. It was pretty cool and actually kind of scary. We went pretty fast i almost slammed into a few trees. It was really cool, but i could only look down when we were on the platforms. It felt like a whole different world because all you could see was trees and green. Right when we finished we got caught in the craziest thunderstorm, I don't know what would have happened if we were still up there.

After sprinting full speed back to the hostel, we hung out and i learned how to play some pool. I was awful, but i actually won my first game after about 2 hours. The night was pretty chill and the people who worked there were awesome. We youtubed for a couple hours watching funny south African rugby clips. I miss youtubing. You can't do it on campus. Anyway... that was the beginning. Much much more to come...