Holy Moley! Just had one of the best weeks of my life...possibly the best ever. I will forewarn you that there ARE NO WORDS to describe i, before I describe it in words :)
So I took last week off from program which was incredibly sad and an extremely hard decision. But I made the right one. I missed my kids so very very very very much! All of them. Cried a couple times and couldn't help but look at their pictures while I was away. But that was the ONLY reason that coming back to Muizenberg/Cape Town (both of which I absolutely adore btw) was bearable. That and the fact that I am one week closer to having my baby in my arms (Apollo duh!).
I traveled with Kayla and Jenny. Two phenomenal people and incredible travel partners! LoVe!!! We took the Baz Bus for a week. It is a hop-on hop-off bus/van that travels around SA taking backpackers to various backpackers and awesome stops all along the coast from Cape Town to Durban and then up to Jo'berg. Its a pretty comfortable ride. Unbelivably scenic (here is the first place where the NO WORDS thing comes into play). And you meet some AWESOMELY "tubular" people. "Hectic bru, hectic!" (in SA-lingo).
We spent our first day (Saturday) on the bus puuurrrdy much the whole day from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth. We had to take the train in from Muizenberg to CT first, so it was definitely a 5am wake-up call and we didn't get to our destination until about 10pm. Looooonng Day. You get to get off and on the bus some to check out the different backpackers and at stops and breaks along the way. But it is still a lot of "bus" if you know what I mean. We just crashed when we got to PE too. Our backpackers was nothing special but still nice and there were some cool people hanging out and playing pool, card games, and drinking when we got there. We told them, "Ya, we'll be right back to hang out as soon as we drop our bags in our room!" Didn't happen. Not even close. First of all, we had our own private room (or room for the 3 of us, which is the most "private" I've experienced in the last couple months). Secondly, had the only non-twin bed of my trip. Ahhhh to lie diagonally!!! (it's the simple things you miss the most) Thirdly, we had a teeny tiny TV in our room. WHAT??! We at the Four Seasons or something? To watch TV in bed--straight up luxury. So shower, couple slices of cheese for dinner (but it was nummy cheese), and sleepy time. Briefly.
We got picked up at 6:45am the next morning (Sunday). For another long Baz-bus filled day. Still super cool people. Picked up right where we left off the day before with our box of wine. Classy ladies! Drinking games, journaling, sleeping, reading, meeting new people and exchanging awesome stories, researching places along the coast that were "Must-Visits". Which is everywhere. Literally. The Eastern Cape coastline (Sunshine Coast, Wild Coast, and beyond) is stunning, unreal, unimaginably beautiful and full of incredible variety. Ahhhh so cool!
At about 8pm we got to our first REAL destination: Umzumbe. Never heard of it? Well neither has most any South African. Little off the beaten path. Our undiscovered treasure trove!
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