After 34 hours of traveling we have finally arrived back in Downingtown. It was a very bittersweet two days of travel. We all were missing home and our families dearly, but none of us wanted to leave behind everything in South Africa.
On Wednesday we had our fun day before heading home. We went to the Mosaic Community Center and were surprised with the HOOP being there along with the crane and a forklift to put it place. We all got to see the container placed and helped organize all of the supplies that were packed in it. To our surprise everything looked exactly the way we had packed it even after being checked upon arriving in Port Elizabeth.
After watching the shipping container we had the afternoon at Spier, which is a winery that was absolutely gorgeous. All of us did a Segway Tour of the winery. It was all off roading and was a ton of fun. Only one person fell out of the entire group. The group also split into two, one group did a wine and chocolate tasting and the other group did an Eagle encounter. Everyone had an amazing time with each other.
Thursday we started our trip back to the states :( We spent the morning going to the community center to see the progress that Julie, Tony and Joe had made on Wednesday while we were all at Spier. We also went to the building site to see how far the local workers had gotten with the rest of the houses and were pleased to see them putting the final touches of the roof on. We ended our trip in Paarl by going to Mark's kitchen to see what happens behind the scenes of a portion of Valley of Abundance. It was incredible to see the culinary skills that Mark teaches all of the kids who works with him. Mark has some great dreams that he wants to accomplish over the next couple of years and hearing his vision was amazing. After all of our stops we went headed to Cape Town to catch our plane to Johannesburg and then catch our flight back to JFK.
We so appreciate all of your prayers for us throughout this journey. It has been eye opening and life changing for us. We would love to share all of our own personal experiences with each and everyone of you, so if you see us please ask :)
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| The greeting we received upon arriving |
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| Dick at Eagle Encounter |
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| The group at the community center after it was put in place |
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| Nielen (right) and his twin Brad (left) |
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| Half of the group on the Segway tour at Spier |
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| The whole group with some of the local workers on our last day at the building site |
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