Lazy Beach days

So the weekend is kind of winding down in Bluff, Durban and the 5 of us girls are so sad its almost over! We've been staying at a backpackers 30 meters from the beach - it is gorgeous and so convenient. We have our own room that essentially looks like a barn and these marathon runners beside us. There is a massive marathon starting from Durban that took place today and it takes the fastest runner something like 7 hours to finish.

Basically we've been relaxing and catching up on sleep from the past 2 weeks since Friday. We've been lazing around the beach, drinking wine, making good food and hitting the town. One of the guys that actually works at the hostel and lives here is from Victoria (go figure I travel to South Africa to meet another boy from out west) and he has a bunch of local friends from around here that have been taking us out. Last night we went to the famous Harvey Wallbangers club - its about a 30 min drive for us but picture this. We call 2 cabs because there was 9 of us - we literally looked like the Mr Bean car - it was the smallest thing essentially sitting on the ground with 4 of us in the back seat all drinking beers. This club was a bit different for myself and Margs (a classier but basically orchid styles) but had a sweet patio and clearly nothing stopped us from accepting beers from the guys.

Last night we also went to see the Agape children perform at the ICC, International Convention Center in downtown Durban. It was this concert called Divas in Concert and I dont think the children really knew but there was a cheque from fundraising presented and that was really all the kids were there for. They had been practicing 6 songs and thought they were doing a performance but sang for about 30 seconds on stage so they were all disappointed. They are leaving for London to perform at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday on the 21st so we dont have that much more time with some of the older ones!

Last night the show ended around 10pm downtown and we called a cab - and its a long story but because of the children we'd met one of the supervisors to the show, Ravi and he wouldnt even let us walk from the front doors of the arena down to the road. He called the cab company back to tell them to come into the parking and into the building to get it, he said its that sketchy he didn't want the 5 of us to walk the 30 seconds. Hey, we didnt mind about the personal bodyguard just shows you how even the people that live here know how sketch it is.

We're just off to the guys house down the road - we're making pizzas for dinner with them and then who knows what the plan is tonight. Tomorrow is a holiday so another day at the beach! Theres no phone at the hostel so dad, HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

-Lou xox

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