Aiport, Take 1

We left Cape Town today at 6 a.m. and landed at Joburg at 8 a.m. All three of us slept the whole time, so the flight was a cinch. But then the real rush was on. We caught a cab back to Leigh's parents' house, picked up the truck and rushed to the other airport in Joburg to pick up Tanya and her friend, Gianna.

We arrived about 9:30 a.m., which was about two hours after their flights arrived. They knew we'd be late because it was the earliest we could arrive. But when we got there we couldn't find them anywhere. We looked all over the international arrivals area and cased the shops, banks and restaurants. Nothing. Great, we though. Our friends have been in Joburg for two hours and we've already lost them. We searched for two hours and couldn't find them. We finally gave up and asked for them to be paged. Turns out, airports don't page people. Fantastic. We decided that Leigh would go to the Internet cafe and email Tanya, letting her know where to meet us. Leigh came back shaking his head.

Turns out, Tanya and Gianna LEAVE on Tuesday. They don't ARRIVE on Tuesday. haha Oh well. We had a good practice run. Tomorrow, when our friends actually arrive, we will be absolutely prepared.

We decided to pick up our tickets for the World Cup games since we then had the day free. We stood in line at the FIFA office in Sandton and then met with a ticket official. We returned our tickets to the France/Mexico game. Hopefully someone who is a true fan of one of those teams will go. If the tickets don't sell, we can pick them up at the FIFA office and use them ourselves. Kudos to FIFA for having such a good return policy.

We got our tickets for the US/Slovenia and Algeria/Slovenia games. It's actually real! Time for the WORLD CUP! YES!

We spent the rest of the day hanging out. After a really busy vacation so far, it was nice to kind of be still for a day. Tomorrow we'll have airport, take 2.