We made it!

Well, Jen and I made it to the bottom of the world. The trip was long (one night to London, a few hours in London, then a night flight to Cape Town) and I don't even want to start adding up how many hours it was as I am trying to get myself adjusted to this time zone. The trip was overall pleasant, except for the fact that Jen seems to be coming down with a cold so she had a rough first night. A few interesting things I noticed: 1) the international service on American Airlines was much better than expected; 2) the food in London was surprisingly edible; and 3) no one seems to have told people from Eastern Europe that the mullet went out of style about the time the iron curtain fell.

South Africa is awesome so far. We have already been shopping twice (shocking, I know) and have bought a few really neat paintings and a few other gifts. The word ketchup seems to apply to something akin to sweet and sour sauce (much to Jen's dismay) so tonight we are going to go in search of sweet and sour sauce and hope that it resembles ketchup. We are now trying to stay up till after 6:00 so we can get a full night sleep, and will visit Robben Island and Table Mountain tomorrow before our shark dive on Wednesday.