So once again... time is flying... but today, so was I!

So, today I woke up, drove about 45 minutes outside of Cape Town... and jumped out of a plane at 3000m. Haha, didn't see that coming did you (unless you've been reading Jen's blog, then you already knew our plan). Anyways, last week Jen and I drove out there with two of our friends to go sky diving. It was too windy so we had to cancel and reschedule. So today was the new date. I didn't want to say anything about it incase it got cancelled again. But it's official now. And it was awesome! I think I may be addicted, and will need to do it again. Haha. It's such a cool feeling, falling at 200km/h towards the earth. You can see forever, and South Africa is gorgeous. I did it as a tandem. So I was attached to an experienced jumper named Rainer, from Germany. Once we opened the parachute he let me steer for a little bit. So we went round and round in circles as fast as we could till I thought I might be sick haha.

But actually, this 3 days off has been an eventful one. Yesterday we went on a tour with Aviva to Cape Point and some other places. So I saw some gorgeous views of the mountains and ocean, went to a National Park and saw baboons and ostriches. And then we saw some African Penguins! It was a pretty cool day. We saw a lot of places yesterday and learned a lot about the country. After we got back our whole house decided to go out for some Mexican food, to change it up. They didn't have room for us so we ended up doing take out and having a giant mexican picnic in our back yard. The people in the house change pretty often because the programs start every week. But so far everyone I've met in the house has been great. One of the people I ski dived with today is leaving tomorrow. Which is too bad. She's a lot of fun. But she's heading off to Kruger park for a 5 day safari before heading back to the states.

Otherwise, I also took my second mini bus trip the other day. I've talked about the mini buses before I'm pretty sure. They are these 15 passenger vans, with more people than that in them. You just hop on and off as you please for really cheap. But anyways, we got in a pretty good fender bender the other day in this mini bus. It was actually pretty funny because we all saw it coming but the driver didnt. We were stopped (a traffic jam of mini buses trying to leave the station) and our driver (who was about 16) was talking away to the driver in the mini bus beside us. Then he pulled a me (that time I exhalerated through the garage door). He randomly stepped on his gas while the bus in front of us had not moved at all, and he hit him pretty good. Anyways, everyone was fine, except our driver was pretty embarrassed, and the other driver was ticked!

Otherwise, don't know what I'm missing at the moment. It feels like it has been a pretty packed 3 days. But tomorrow morning is back to the orphanage. It's a pretty good balance, the three days off and three days on. When I leave the orphanage I am just starting to feel like I really need a break, but by the time my three day break is up I can't wait to get back to see the kids!

Oh yeah, and there was also another break in. Not at our house though. It was at the orphanage this time. There is 2 orphanages that the people at our house work at. Jen and I are the only volunteers at Masi, and then there are like ten volunteers that are at Bap. Bap is the one that got broken in to and some of the volunteers stuff was taken. So if you could just keep the volunteers safety in your prayers that would be awesome. Thanks guys.

Anyways, I hope everything is going well at home. I'll talk to you all soon... since tomorrow is officially half way through our trip... ah!

Love you all