All the way to end of the world.

Today was full.. no other way to describe it.

We started off the day with our last visit to Maitland Cottage. The spirit of this place is unmatched by any other hospital I have been in. The children are all suffering from orthopedic issues but don't show an ounce of pain and they do not hold back from anything. Being that they do not have a regular volunteer program, they light up whenever we come around the corner. Today we had nothing more to offer them than some crayons, stickers, chalk, and old halloween coloring books but they all had smiles on their faces every second we were there. We've talked many time in our group meetings about how refreshing it is to see children who are happy to have something as simple as one crayon and a piece of paper rather than an Ipad or some other electronic. These kids are the definition of what we have been talking about.

After we left the kids, we immediately hopped on our bus and headed down, down, down. We stopped along the way for a beachside lunch and to see the African penguins we've been hearing so much about. I still can't fully understand how I saw Penguins in the middle of the African summer today... but I did. Also something I can't understand is why about 10 minutes after we left we saw crazy baboons walking along the side of the road! They were EVERYWHERE. We've been warned about these guys and they were not kidding.

A bit further down the road we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, the south-western most point of the African Continent. More baboons here too, and they were climbing on top of cars! We also had to stop on the road for a couple minutes, but not because of your typical squirrel or bunny or anything like that. Nope. It was an ostrich. An ostrich that caught it's reflection in our bus windows and wanted to get reaaallllyyyyy close to check itself out!

Our final stop of the day was Cape Point. That's right.. today I traveled to the southern most tip of Africa.