After waking up at 10pm last night and thinking it was morning, I fell back asleep to try to catch up the the actual time here, instead of NY time. Breakfast in the a.m. was slightly better than last nights "meal," if you like bacon that is 90% fat and 10% meat. I stayed with a safe meal of toast, yogurt, and cereal with less than 1/4 cup of whole milk(grosss.)
Our first stop of the day was at Duiker Island where we met Peachy Boy, a 300 year old (animal years) seal that weighed about 500 lbs! A man that trained him had taught him a trick; which was to wait till he says "go" to eat the raw fish the guy hung from his mouth. You guys will get a kick out of the pictures we took with him, luckily we didn't get any fish guts on us. After the photo shoot, we took a 10 minute ferry ride to the island that was adorned with thousands of mostly male seals. So everyone knows who Ceasar Milan is right? Well if not, he is known as the "dog whisperer" in the US....but over here in South Africa, they have a guy that is known as the "Lion Whisperer." Either the guy is out of his mind, or he was put in front of a green screen to take a picture of him hugging a lion...guess we will never know.
WE arrived at Cape Point after being shown the difference between a male and female Ostrich ( either black or tan.) The views of the cape were amazing, but they got even better as we scaled to the top where the lighthouse was situated. Even though Meganne and I were out of breath because we decided it would be fun to run up to the top, we still enjoyed the breathtaking view. I could not stop looking at this one bay with white sand overlapped by hews of blue, turquoise, teal and crystal clear water. The highlight of the day was at the bottom of the hill when we got lunch. Christina had gotten a personal pizza for lunch and decided to eat outside. As soon as she went to take a bite, a bird swooped down and took the slice out of her hand. IF that wasn't enough, another bird saw a piece of pizza peeking out of the box, so it too, swooped down and took that slice along with the one connected to it. I haven't even mentioned the rat they saw before they moved to their second eating spot.
The same lumpy green/yellow, tomorrow night it will probably be orange, soup was served to us. As we gulped it down, Meganne and I decided to pass on the main course and just ate bread and peanut butter. The main course was burgers and fries, as John took a bite of his burger, he quickly figure out that it was not beef, I am so happy I decided to skip that meal.
All in all, the day turned out to be great. I'll touch on the night's festivities in tomorrows post because there is way too much to say.
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