Day 6: Sunset Salsa

Have you ever been absolutely taken back by something you saw? A time where you actually had to take a step back and just take everything in because it was THAT beautiful? Tonight, the entire group took a sunset cruise along the coast of Cape Town. It was so beautiful, if you looked to the left you saw the towering mountains that had a mist around their bases making them look almost fake and then when you turned to your right you just saw the sky painted all in pastels with the water making the horizon almost background worthy. It also makes you realize how small you really are in this big world. Something else that I found out we all take for granted. To describe what I saw from the boast in 2 words would have to be: Breath Taking.

We returned to the hotel to have our first group dinner, which was great. Pasta, pasta, pasta- can we say that I was in heaven? Because I was! After dinner, we had our first Community Group Leader meeting where we talked about our highs and lows for the week and were briefed on the week to come. It was the first time we got to hear from the leaders from the Bafana Bafana group about their adventure week, which sounded great- can’t wait until ours! They all seemed to have a good time and the bungee seemed to have been their favorite part of their week, can we talk about being excited? Because I’m so stoked about adventure week now.

After dinner, a small group of us decided to go down to Buena Vista, the Cuban social club here in Cape Town to experience Salsa night. The margaritas were from the top shelf and the salsa music was superb. Stephanie and I shared a couple of dances that had the people from our group smiling but we looked like complete amateurs in comparison to the rest of the more, um… experienced dancers. We had fun, that’s all that counts really.

Cape Town, like Louisiana is a melting pot of cultures that just makes this place so unique and intriguing. Pretty much to the point of where you don’t have to go very far to experience the diversity of this area. And like my Cajun heritage, that is something I can appreciate.

Travel on,

Seth