It's The Circle of Life!!!!!

Today for lunch, Matt and I ate with Tutu and Pumula at a restaurant called Spurs: Steak Ranches. It may possibly be the most unintentionally racist restaurant I have ever been to, haha. The restaurant is a Native American themed restaurant that is covered in layer upon layer of “Native American” crap such as plastic teepees,seat cushions that were made of fabric resembling cowhide, and everywhere you looked there were Native Americans doing Native American things painted on the walls. It was amazing.

For dinner tonight, we went to a place called Marco’s Place. It served authentic African cuisine. It was super touristy. It was good though. I had a kudu (antelope) steak, with pap (it’s a dish made of ground up maize and mixed with water), as well as a spinach dish. It was really good. I also got to try someone’s ostrich. I was also very tasty. For dessert, Suvrat, Tara and I shared an ice cream dish that was covered in chocolate sauce and Amarula. Yummy.

To drink, Tara, Suvrat, Collin, and I shared some local beer made in the township of Guguletu, a township that I work in a lot. It wasn’t my favorite. Tara told me that she thinks it was made of fermented corn or cornhusks, as that’s what the beer in Uganda was made from. It had a very weird taste and consistency. It was interesting, but I don’t think I’ll be trying it again.

So, tomorrow morning at 6am (midnight eastern time), we all head out for our safari. We are leaving so early so that we can make an afternoon/evening game drive at Kwandwe National Game Park. We will be staying at the game park Thursday and Friday night, and will have four drives (one Thursday, two Friday, and one Saturday) to get in. On Saturday, we head to Tsala Treetop Lodge (google it), where we will spend the night, as well as takeadvantage of some of the spots around Treetop. On Sunday, we head to Knysna, an ocean-side city, where we will spend Sunday night. At Knysna, we will have access to other events (elephant riding, bungee jumping, etc.), but we must pay for them individually. All in all, it should be a ridiculously fun event, and I will be sure to post the hundreds, nay thousands of pictures that I will probably take.

As such, I’m sure all my faithful readers are wondering about when they can hear from me again. Well, I will be taking my computer with me to upload all of my pictures everyday, and we’ll see if the hotels have WiFi or not. If they don’t, I’ll keep a log of my days, and post those when I get back on Monday afternoon/evening. This is the update of all updates everyone, so please stay tuned! G’night, my friends!!