Table Mountain!

On April 22 South Africa was voting for its next president. Everyone already knows that Jacob Zuma will win, but that is an entirely different conversation that I do not feel like typing about. Today we took the train in to Cape Town again. Jeff and I decided to leave the rest of the group and climb Table Mountain while everyone else decided to walk around and then take the cable car up the mountain. The path that we decided to take we were told takes about 1 - 3 hours depending on how fit you are. I sort of thought that it would take me a lot longer, but both of us made it up the mountain in just 55 minutes! I felt good about myself after the hike up the mountain, but my legs hated me! Once we got on top of the mountain we saw why it is called table mountain. The entire top is fairly flat with sort of a prarie and some boulders sitting on top. Jeff and I wandered around the mountain for a bit and did some bouldering and site seeing from every point we could find. We decided to head to the cable car and meet up with the rest of the group thinking that we would meet them once they were done absailing, but when we got there we were there in time to actually absail with them. This was probably one of the scariest things I have ever done. We absailed from the highest absailing location in the world. On one side was a completely vertical cliff face and on ther other side was.....nothing! I made it down the cliff fairly quickly and once I got used to it I had a great time. After absailing we all took the cable car down where I ran in to a couple from Nebraska who noticed my cornhusker hat that I was wearing. So we talked about football for the entire ride down the mountain. This was a great talk and I really enjoyed talking about Big Red football!!!!