Today none of us needed to go to class, so we decided to skip campus and wander over to Simon Town!
- We successfully navigated the train and the hour ride over was gorgeous
- The beaches are white, the water has three million shades of a dream, and the sun infects everyone with happy
- Simon Town was rather touristy, but very quaint and lovely. There were a lot of shops and we had amazing gelato when we first arrived (I had passionfruit and it still had the seeds in it)
- There were a lot of vendors on the street with interesting things, but I'm going to wait a little longer to fill my luggage with goodies for all of you
- After penguin sighting, we got lunch at a cute little place right on the water overlooking all the sailboats (mom, you would be so jealous of these boats)
- PENGUINS
- IN AFRICA
- These used to be called Jackass penguins because they make a braying noise, but recently their name has been changed to boring old African Penguin. We went to a beach that started out with one mating pair and now 2,200 populate the area.
- We had a bit of time to kill before catching our train home and naturally we frolicked about on the beach!
- The water was nice and brisk. Not Oregon cold, but very refreshing
- Our return train ride was rather eventful. A very large black woman sat down on Jessica, and then another one from down the isle had her son come and fetch Jessica so that she could tell her that she shouldn't scratch at her face. Then, as we were getting off at our stop, I was the last person of our group and there were tons of people pushing to get on. I tried to push my way out, but my feet got caught up and the doors were closing as people were still pushing to hop on. I almost lost both my shoes as my crew pulled my arms to get me off in time.
- After that escapade, we attempted to climb up the mountain to see the sunset. But we didn't know any route to get to the sun-setting side of the mountain, so we basically ended up wandering around the grounds of a beautiful hospital.
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