Live the High Life

Alright people we're at the halfway mark (stop cheering Mom & Dad).

Standing outside of Maitland Cottage this morning

Today was our first outreach excursion.
We spent our morning at Maitland Cottage, a long-term orthopedic hospital housing patients from all over South Africa. The hospital is split up into two wards, male and female, each holding up to 35 children. Maitland Cottage doesn't have an established volunteer program like the Red Cross so the kids were noticeably surprised and excited when we came into their wards this morning. I spent my morning on the boys ward and I think I may have a new boyfriend (sorry Steve : P.. just kidding I love you.) I held up a puzzle and asked who wanted to work on it and this one boy immediately called me over and we got started. It was a Cars puzzle and it just so happened that he was wearing a Cars t-shirt, perfect match! When I told him he got to keep the puzzle he was ECSTATIC. Throughout the day he kept kissing the box and saying "I can't believe it's mine!" and showed all of his friends around him. I was so happy to give this boy something he was so proud to call his own.


After our morning at Maitland, our Connect-123 bus driver was kind enough to bring us to Table Mountain where we took a cable car ride right to the tippy-top! We were all expecting to see chair lift-type cars that seat maybe 4 or 5 people but instead we found a car that held more than 40 people with plenty of room to spare. The floor inside of the car spun slowly during the climb to ensure you got to see the entire view of the mountain as we rose and the ocean beneath us. At the very top the air was still warm and the sun was nice and hot... it felt so good to be close to the sun. As we looked over the edge we could see the clouds over the ocean
                                          ... I think this is what people might picture when they think of Heaven.

The group on the way up to the top of Table Mountain!