a day

today was a good day. a gold star day, some might say.

wally and i got up and had our breakfast room service which we had ordered the night before waiting for us. then we all got into this van and began our journey towards the southern tip of the continent. on the way we saw gazelles, ostriches, mountain zebras, whales, and lots of baboons. the Cape Point park, where you can walk to the southernmost point for amazing views of the atlantic and indian oceans meeting, is also a Baboon reserve...so they just run free around the parking lot. in fact, they are viscious animals so one essentially chased us into the van, at which point our guide/driver Nathan screamed "shut the door, shut the door!" which we did. hilarious and terrifying. photos pending. we also went to this penguin park. and penguins are really cute. now i understand why they have like 19 animated movies about them.

THEN we went to the nearby mall to get some food. walter and i brought our pizza to a bench outside and notices how aggressive the birds were, landing right on our table. and then one flew down and ate walter's pizza...out of his mouth! he literally flew down and bit the end of the pizza sticking out of walter's eating hole. crazy. i immediately ran away screaming...much to the delight of the local girls who were laughing hysterically at the stupid americans. well excuse me for not having the sense to protect myself from predatory animals. walter equated it with a really terrifying version of the lady and the tramp.

as if that werent enough, as we were walking home we saw this ENORMOUS rainbow. now i know we all see rainbows so all you jaded assholes are thinking "meh"...but just believe me...it was HUGE. like really big and bright. and as we got closer it got brighter adn soon you could see the ENTIRE arc! and a secondary rainbow! it was unbelievable. wikipedia tells us what we saw was a supernumerary rainbow with a secondary arc. it looked like this:

jealous? yeah i thought so. pictures of me with the rainbow also pending.

off to watch some 6 FEET UNDER and then after our hour set we are all going to see WALL-E!!!!!!!!!!!!! so excited, we were all pissed it wasnt out in australia and i am really happy to see it.

~ Barry

ps - i still dont want to plan final dinner

pps - hi Mrs. Kehler!