Dear Sophia,
Today, after your student of the month ceremony, Nana took Dad and I to the airport to start our 9700 mile,26 hour trip to Cape Town. We flew to Washington D.C. where we met up with Autie Meko and her friend for our 16 hour flight to Johannesburg. This was a really long time to be on the plane but we passed the time by playing video games (Dad only), reading books and magazines, sleeping, watching movies or TV shows on our personal seat back systems (Black Swan was 4/5, 1st season of Boardwalk Empire was great), and eating. We got 3 meals and a snack on this flight and we had 5 different times of beverage service. The plane stopped in Dakar, Senegal to refuel after 8 hours but those of us going to South Africa did not get off the plane. We stayed there for two hours and then continued on to Johannesburg. In Johannesburg we got off the plane and went through customs where we had our passports stamped. Now I finally have a stamp in my new passport.
After that we took another plane to Cape Town where we were picked up for the short drive to our hotel, The Commodore, which is located right on the waterfront. At this point it was 10 PM in South Africa but it was only 3 PM in Minneapolis so I was not tired at all. We cleaned up and then went to the Victoria & Alfred waterfront area to have something to eat. We ended up eating at Mitchell's Brewery where we tried local beer and wood fire pizza. Both were very good but the pizza was not as good as Punch to me. Dad disagreed. After our outing we returned to the hotel since we needed to meet our driver at 8:15 AM for our drive to the tip of Africa in the morning.
Love,
Mom
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