1-6-13
Slept pretty great for being in a new place last night. But
let me back up just a bit. Since we sold all of our possessions in the garage
sales Tyrone and I busted our butts at work to save as much money as possible
to come to Langebaan South Africa. We worked and worked and I put in my notice
about a month before our departure. I gave my boss 1 month notice just in case so she had plenty
of time to replace me and it turned out she was able to find someone about 2 ½
weeks later! Tyrone and I quit pretty much the same day so we were able to
spend a couple weeks with family and friends which was much needed. We had a
blast spending time with everyone and saying our good byes. It was really hard
to say good bye but we had to keep reminding ourselves it is not good bye, its
see ya later. After many tears we said our final “see you soon” January 3rd
and left Houston on our Emirates flight to Dubai.
This plane is the only way to go when you have to be in the
air for 14 hours! Lol it was amazing! It was a 380 and we were not in first
class or anything but it was pretty spacious and we had chargers built into the
private screen on the seat in front of you. I watched about 4 movies in a row
before I finally forced myself to go to bed. The chairs recline quite a bit but
the coolest thing was the camera on the front of the plane so you can watch the
takeoff and the landing. I did record that when we landed in Dubai because of
course Dubai had the runway lit up like a Christmas tree. They served us a couple
of meals that weren’t too shabby and the selection of movies was huge! So that
was a really nice flight and it did not feel like we were on a plane for 14
hours.
When we got to Dubai we tried to find a united club since we
had passes to go in and get freshened up a bit but guess what, they don’t have
one!!! L
so we checked out the airport for a bit and found a wifi spot and emailed and
checked in with everyone via Facebook. Facebook is becoming really convenient
by the way. I never really posted much in the past but I probably posted 16
times between the 3rd and now. It is just easy to let everyone we
know whats going on because everyone has it and lets just admit it we are all
obsessed with it. Lol …We had our first international meal at McD’s since we
were too chicken to try anything that might embarrass us on our next flight. We
took a couple of naps, we had a beer to celebrate Ty’s birthdayJ my honey is 35 now. 8
hours later we were on a plane to Cape Town!
This plane…a 340..was like flying United but you had a
screen that played a few random movies but it did not tell you what you were
watching or when it started and you could not restart the movie. It was like
flipping tv channels. Ugh…it was so cramped and the 9 ½ hour flight could not
be over soon enough. The good thing was that the whole family of people
surrounding us slept the whole way so we didn’t have the kids kicking our seats
or anything like that so at least that was a good thing. They served a couple
of meals but I wasn’t that hungry. I would say in that 2 day period I probably
slept a total of 8 hours so we have been super sleep deprived but when we
landed we got our excitement back so we were able to stay up and go to bed in
Cape Town time and get on track easily.
We landed in Cape Town and it was so easy to get into the
country. We went straight to passport check ins and showed our passports, the
guy said one American woman and one American man, stamped our passports and
sent us on our way. Yeah that easy. We grabbed our luggage and met the shuttle
driver who was holding up a sign with our name on it. He drove us 2 hours up
the coast to Mykanos club and here we are. There was a little confusion on
where to go but the class, the flats, and the marina are all in one area and
within walking distance. We borrowed his phone to call the school manager
Tracey and she said she was going to have us stay in the flat for the night.
Thank you Jesus! We were able to have a room with a bed and a hot shower as
soon as we got in. The airport did not have wifi like in Dubai and our phones
were dead because this plane did not have charger plug ins like the first one.
We have a little mall where the school is located called the Pic and Pack and
were able to find a wifi spot and log on just long enough to let everyone know
we made it safely.
We came back and showered after buying a few supplies at the
pic and pack and Tracey showed up with our roommate Christo. He is a nice kid
all of 19 today. He is doing what we are doing pretty much but he is taking the
class one step further and getting his ocean certification. We are stopping at
offshore certification. We all have to meet at the school today at noon to go
through orientation and move onto our boat. We are sharing a boat with 3 other
people it turns out…lol…we will see how that goes…could be fun! So we decided
to go down to the marina and have a nice little sit down dinner, have a few
beers, and watch the sunset. We changed and put on some pants because it is
FREEZING at night! Was not expecting it to be that cold but geeeez. Luckily the
pick and pack has something similar to our Old Navy and I can pick up some yoga
pants and another pair of linen pants or something. The price was about $20 U.S
I think for the linen pants. We walked down and they have a few spots at the
marina where you can eat and listen to music so we plopped down and dove right
into the menu. Ty had the lamb skewers which were pretty good! I don’t normally
like lamb but its not like the lamb at the Greek festival. Yeah we were hoping
to have more South African food to choose from but this Mykanos Resort marina
that we are staying at is of course Greek so they have a greek menu and a
pizzeria. I did go out of my comfort zone and try the prawn curry and oh ma gah
it was so good! I cant wait to try more new things! We did notice the crowd of
captains all being loud and joking and drinking in the bar. You can tell they
were out all day and are having a few drinks before heading home. I did notice
that they did not eat there and Im wondering where they go to eat around here.
I would definitely like to try all the different places there are but I think
we are sort of limited to the marina. The club Mykanos is a gated resort here
so MOM that should make you feel better. We are staying in a gated resort with
security and you have to have an access card to actually go down to the marina
which is right off the bar deck where we had dinner.
We woke up at the crack of dawn to the rooster just up the
road (that has still not stopped and the sun has been up for quite a while).
The birds here are hilarious! They don’t sound like ca-caw seagulls back home.
They sound like the game Angry Birds! They sound like chimps at the zoo
actually…lol. Ok well time to get up get ready to go to orientation.
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