On Saturday morning May 5, I arrived safely at our lodge in South Africa. This was about 32+ hours after I left my apartment in San Francisco on May 3, so needless to say, I felt a bit disoriented. The flight between SFO and Heathrow was about 9 hours, then we had a 7 hour layover in the UK. Then we flew down to Cape Town on our second flight of the trip, which lasted about 12 hours. After checking into my room at the Feathers Lodge in Durbanville (just outside Cape Town) and a quick shower, a group headed over to the local mall. I bought a pay-as-you-go SIM card for my GSM phone and we had (middle eastern) lunch at the mall's food court. Later in the day, we went to a rugby game in a really nice part of town. One of REP's clients treated us to box seats in the middle of the stadium! WOW! I've never even really watched rugby on TV longer than 5-10 minutes before today. It was really fun to be at a game and have such nice seats. We had the pleasure of watching the (Durban) Sharks (currently the top rugby team) play and beat the Cape Town, vodacom Stormers. It was a great first day in South Africa.
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