August 13

Sarah, David and I went to church (Janet went early, but we didn’t have to). At church they recognized it was my last Sunday and told me they’ll miss me, etc. After it was over, James and I cooked up a plan to go to the Durban beach. So Sarah and I ran home to get our swim suits and then we all drove down to the beach. Durban beach is awesome! It is one of the best beaches I’ve ever seen- it has a great “boardwalk” with restaurants, public pools, kiddie rides, cable cars, piers, and clean sandy beaches.
We parked up at the north end, so we could walk down to the end and see everything before actually going on the beach. On our way I noticed a “trampoline park” (just about 10 trampolines in the ground) and Sarah and I went a jumped on them while Neill patiently waited on us. It was so fun- we got this cute little African boy to take turns jumping with us (because you have to pay 3 R to jump). After our fun jumping, we went to the beach and all the girls (Charlene, Sarah, me, and two other girls with us) ran into the water. Apparently the waves were lower than normal, but it was very nice surf. Just around the bend is Durban’s port, the largest in Africa? South Africa? And you can see boats lined up forever to go to the port.
When everyone had enough beach we drove to James’ house (which is huge and beautiful- pool, hot tub, skate ramp, tennis courts, gardens, boat garage, HUGE) for tea and cake. After that David and Janet picked Sarah and me up and we took the dogs for a walk around the sugar cane field. During our walk a ferocious dog attacked one of the Hotchkiss’ dogs. It was kind of scary, but ended up okay. Stupid dogs (just kidding)
I took a wonderful hot shower (I had gotten pretty cold with my wet hair and swimsuit when the sun started setting) and had dinner. In a few minutes we are going to watch Heartlines and then I’ll go to bed!