I made it to South Africa!!   
This has been a life-long dream of mine to get to come here & it's happened and I'm stoked :)  yippeee!

The flight was fine, the hotel is very nice and I just spent a wonderful day with a dear friend.  We headed out early which was a good thing - a perfect day & drive out to Sun City .  A resort about a 2 hour drive from Johannesburg, with lots to see, do, eat & drink.   

               

After a tour of the Sun City grounds and the Palace 

     

we headed off to Pilanesberg Game Reserve, where I was able to experience an African park and got VERY close to some very cool animals.  I was asked later by someone who had been to this park if I'd seen "anything"?  Apparently when he went, he saw one elephant on the drive out.  Errrr, sorry, mate, I saw a herd of them on the way in, then zebras, rhinos, hippos, giraffes, wildebeest, and kudu. 

             


A colleague said to me online the other day that there is nothing like the experience of the sun setting over an African game park.  I now know exactly what she meant.




How much fun is this?  What a great way to spend half a day after enjoying the sites of Sun City!  I couldn't have asked for a better itinerary, better company, better weather - what a brilliant intro to South Africa.

As you can see I had the best time & I am now psyched for the rest of the week.  
I couldn't have done it today without my buddy Jester.  Thank you, thank you, a hundred times, thank you.