Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset

After 24 hours and 4 airline meals we've made it to Cape Town!

Highlights of our travels included:

- Seeing the sun set and rise in the first flight -- only to see it set again in the second

- My first glimpse of Europe (I think I saw Manchester and our layover was in Amsterdam. No, we did not leave the airport but we did eat cheese.)

- An arial view of the fields of tulips in Holland (it looked like a crayola box)

Our second flight, on KLM, was mostly Europeans. Groggy and totally sleep deprived, we realized that our fellow travelers had a different concept of flying than Americans -- they were up and about, chatting with each other in the bulkheads, sharing drinks in the galley. Pete and I would have probably been more enthusiastic about this if we hadn't just come off a redeye, and if it weren't 3 AM EST. Though, to be honest, the jovial atmosphere didn't prevent us from nodding off in the brightly lit cabin.

And then, after one round of enthusiastic applause for the pilot's landing, we were searching across every corner of the Cape Town airport for our rental car. Yes, we did get lost before we even left the airport. Somehow we ended up in the domestic Budget rental car lot instead of the International Budget rental car lot. Driving on the right side of the car and the left side of the road was unquestionably a mental challenge. Peter elected to navigate for our drive to the B&B. Luckily the roads were empty at 11pm on Sunday night. Only once did we find ourselves on the wrong side of a highway with someone beeping their horn at us. But we arrived safely at Cotswold House:



In fact we just ate breakfast at this table:



It's a great spot, and now after a little food (mango!) we're headed out to drive down to the Cape of Good Hope.