6:00 am rolls around and I hear the alarm on my phone go off, and I'm thinking to myself- "I'm so sure, the sun isn't even up and I am. Not cool." So we got up, hopped on the busses and headed toward table mountain for the sunrise hike up- well, with good intentions it wouldve been a sunrise hike, but we had some organizational issues and we got there while the sun was coming up and we started at about 7:30-8, it wasn't their fault that there was traffic and all that mess. Point of the story is that we made it there and everything was all good. Well, somewhat...
So this sunrise hike ended up being a climb up the mountain that took 2 hours. Not just 2 hours of walking up the mountain, but 2 hours of climbing and hiking and all that mess that I don't usually do. Needless to say, I cussed the name of our program director a couple times and almost passed out/vomitted. I am proud to say that I did neither one of the last 2- I made it up with no passing out or throwing up- Oh, and the heart works! For all those who were concerned/questioning that whole issue! So once we made it to the top and heard Courtney yelling that we had made it, I was never so happy to hear her voice!
The view from the top was absolutely amazing! It was pretty much the view and pictures you see on calendars and stuff. It was perfect, the clouds were rolling over the tips on the mountains and they were just green and just, yeah- amazing. So we had class up on top of the mountain and talk about the power of now and we even complied our own bucket lists. Yes, just like the movie- I had a pretty outrageous list, but nothing way too far fetched. Except for my last one.. Be Jesus. Not too out there, right? I did have some pretty cool things on there, so we'll see how far I can get before I kick the bucket, hopefully pretty far...
After that we came back to the apartments and pretty much just chilled out for a while and did a little school work. That night we went down to the Grand West casino where I tried my luck at the black jack tables here, and I have to say, it was a pretty trying battle, but lady luck ended up being on my side- I walked away with R1250 about $180 in comparison to the $100 I put in. We had a good time and all in all, still loving Cape Town. Oh, and they have Tabasco here!
Travel on,
Seth
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