June 17

June 17, 2007

RENAE:
We’re finally OFF!! We left, after buying some tarp straps and finally packing and repacking the luggage and whatnot, and then decided to get another bin to fit. So we then bought another bin and took everything off the top again and repacked and restrapped, all in the parking lot of a mall. We got some funny looks, but not as many as we got when we ate ice cream out of a tub in Frankfurt with our credit cards (for me ID card) and sharpies sitting on a bench in a park next to a walkway because we didn’t have spoons, or, in fact, any type of eating utensils. The ice cream was good though. Anyways, we finally left Cape Town at like 2 in the afternoon and drove for a while. Pretty much the whole drive we tried to decide on a name for the Landrover. Dad wants Lassie, mom wants ‘the beast’, Lisa Ephraim, and Nicole really wants Nancy, cause she thinks it’s the funniest name ever and never stops laughing. (Tomorrow she’ll even find a seaweed tube thingy at the beach and name it Nancy and say it’s her best octopus leg friend and get mad if you call it seaweed. In two days, Nancy will die and Nicole will even cry.) Then we got to a hostel and a huge storm came and just about blew me away it was so windy. It was a pretty nice hostel. Oh and before we got there we ate at a pizzeria and dad thinks it’s the best pizza he ever had—Pizza Palace is still way better though—and a guy, maybe the manager, came out and told us the water might be bad and that we might get sick and possibly die from it, but so far nothing has gone wrong beside Nicole getting diarrhea. Who knows, we might wake up one morning and be dead. But that wouldn’t really make sense I guess.
Renae

LISA:
I would just like to make a disclaimer that RENAE is the one terrified of heights. She was just too embarrassed to admit it was her. I, on the other hand, have never been frightened by a silly old mountain.
Lisa


NICOLE:
ODE TO NAN from the SEA
Nancy
You tube of slimy beauty
You were such a cutie
Nancy
You came in with the tide
You never left my side
Nancy
We quickly became the best of friends
I’d even buy you a Mercedes Benz
Nancy
You heaven-sent leg of octopus
I loved you like Big Bird loves Snuffalufagus
Nancy
You were so very fly
Why did you have to die?
Goodbye. (Nancy)

This was posted in loving memory of the most newly dead member of the family, by the Weaver Family.
Nicole