Random things
First and foremost the best news of the trip: my bag has arrived!! It was the perfect ending to a wonderful day! After a fantastic dinner at a great italian place, lots of wine and beer, Jackie and I arrive back at the hotel. Walk into the room and there was my bag!!! I seriously couldn’t believe my eyes…from what we can tell it has been sitting in the Durban airport all week!! It did arrive in Johannesburg, I didn’t clear customs with it, and they DID put it on the next flight to Durban. A South African Airlines flight though and not a British Air flight…so it arrived in Durban on 8/13 (last monday!) and apparently just yesterday the SA airlines and the BA people just spoke and worked it out. I don’t care I’m just pleased to have my stuff 
Random things:
It is pointless for the surfers to fight against the waves of the ocesn. So instead of swimming out to surf, they walk to the end of the pier and jump off. This puts them exactly where they want to be to catch the perfect wave. And there are tons of perfect waves. Waves like I’ve never, ever seen before. It is great to just sit and watch the surfers do their thing.
Yesterday morning after breakfast I saw one of the ladies who works at the hotel has a really nice hair clip so I compliment her on it. She says to me - you want one? I can get one for you. I laugh and then realize she is serious. I ask her how much it costs and she says to me - oh, don’t worry about that we will talk about that tomorrow. I think she is off today but I know she’ll be back tomorrow, it will be funny if she actually goes and buys me one of the clips!
 That is about it for now…today I am doing some conferencing then heading to the Indian market at Victoria Street. Am really looking forward to that and hoping I don’t spend to much money Which actually seems impossible to do here…last night there were five of us at dinner and we split the bill between us all and it came out to about 90 rand per person. Which is about $15 and you would not believe the amount of food and drinks we had for that amount.
Life was good before the bag arrived and it is even better now!
love to all!
August 20th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Yep, the waves have been REALLY good recently!
August 20th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Congratulations on the bag arriving! I can’t imagine living a week without luggage on a trip. I don’t take enough in my carry-on to live on! You can’t wear or eat a laptop…