September 27, 2007

Today was a day that was spent in the bus leaving Cape Town for the Klein Karoo and Oudtshoorn. We drove for 8 hours and stopped for lunch at the Blue Crane Farmshop and had a light lunch of soup and a bran muffin. Then we continued the drive where I slept and read a Jodi Picoult book that Christy borrowed to me. We arrived at the Red Stone Hill Farm where we were staying for the next two nights and my roommate was Brenna and we shared the house with Christy and Leslie. We had 2 ½ hours to just relax before dinner so we all sat on our back porch with the mountain surrounding us, and the ostriches from the farm walking around in their cage only feet away from where we were sitting. We read and had a few snacks before walking to the main house for a braai. The farm that we are staying at has ostriches, sheep, horses and wild peacocks and it was neat seeing all of these animals, especially the baby ostriches! For dinner, I had the chicken with rice, butternut squash, potato salad, coleslaw, and salad. It was such a great meal, but I barely had room for everything! It was a relaxing and lazy day, with not much that happened other than driving!