Recently, we rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and we are so close to the coast that there are mountains in view! It is a very welcome and exciting sight after being at sea for so long...and we still have a few days to go! We will hopefully be walking on dry land by the end of the week. The water is very smooth again (thank you, Lord!) and we are back to enjoying lots of sealife and very cold air. We have switched time zones twice from Togo, so we are now one hour ahead of England and seven hours ahead of US Central time. Makes communication difficult, but it could be worse.
This weekend computers and other facilities will be turned off and taken down on the ship in preparation for our impending move. In South Africa, we are not sure of the internet situation (we are hoping for enough bandwidth to Skype! That would be great!!) but we do know there is limited phone usage (and I've been told that a mom who calls her daughter on the ship, which is a US phone number, buys a phone card for the equivalent of 8 US dollars and gets about 45 minutes of talk time, so that will probably only be a special option...). So I'm not really sure what contact will be like after this weekend.
We hope you are all enjoying the gradually cooling weather back in England and the States...the one thing I truly miss the most is watching the leaves turn in the fall and enjoying all of the fall festivities. But at least in a month or two we will get to experience at South African spring :)
Much love,
Amy & Samuel
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