We have arrived in South Africa via london stopover for 12 hours which was pretty fun. We got to see most of the sights and see what London was like.
Race Day found us leaving our base and getting a ride to Pretoria the capital city. We all got dropped off at a large monument and were given our first clue. We had to get a sentence translated from Afrikaans to English. The translation told us to go to the union building which was quite a ways down the street. We took off running and ended up running all the way there which was a long ways. We got our next clue which said we had to go to the Johannesburg zoo via the train. We got to the train station in third place but all the teams ended up on the same train. We arrived in Johannesburg and went to find a van to take us to the zoo. We got stopped by the police who asked if we were trying to get robbed and killed, as Johannesburg is the most dangerous city in the world. We told him no and he escorted us to the place to get our vehicle.
We got to the zoo and had to take a picture with the 5 big animals of Africa. The lion, elephant, rhino, buffalo and leopard. We then had to find a monument and get a picture with that before racing out to a restaraunt about a mile away. At the restaraunt we had to order and eat a typical african plate while getting our face painted.
We then had to run out and try and find transportation to the Apartheid Museum which was very interesting to walk through and told a lot about the conflict that has been going on in South Africa for a lot of years. We then had to catch a ride a tall building that I can’t remember the name of. We were right next to an amusment park and we saw this young couple coming out of the parking lot so we asked them for a ride. They were more than happy to take us. So we rode in style to the skyscraper listening to beach boys blasting in the speakers. We finally arrived at the building and rode the elevator to the top floor where there was an observatory and we came in second place behind the yetis.
We are now waiting for our visas to come through for Mozambique and then we will be heading there. We are going to a town on the indian ocean that was hit by tornadoes. WE will be doing some relief and rebuilding work. We may not have internet for awhile, but will give you an update as soon as I can.
