I'm on spring break! wooo! Actually, it's fall here, but you'd never know it because it was perfect beach weather yesterday. I got the fifth harry potter out of the UCT library (they have a copy of all of the books and none were checked out! what is wrong with these people?!) and spent the day lying on the beach and reading. Harry Potter really doesn't seem that popular here, which is most unfortunate.

Anyways, last weekend we went to the Kirstenbosch Gardens for a concert on Saturday and Sunday because it's just so nice there and they were the last two concerts of the season. We saw the Soweto String Quartet on one day, which was amazing but not at all what I expected. They didn't really play any classical music, but had a band with them and played more contemporary stuff, like "In the Jungle." And I finally got to climb up Table Mountain on Sunday! It's quite a steep two hours up, but then we just wandered around on top, which is flat. It was funny because we had no problems navigating our way up and around the mountain, but when we got down to the very end where you are pretty much in the neighborhood of Camps Bay, we got lost and ended up wandering through some backyards. We must have looked pretty funny with big hiking backpacks, pulling out a map and standing looking confused in the middle of a neighborhood. And when we finally figured it out, we went to the best ice cream place in South Africa (or so I've heard) called Sinful and oh my was it delicious. They have crazy flavors that don't tell you anything about what's in it (like "Yummy" and "Very Yummy") so I just went with Very Yummy and it certainly lived up to it's name. They even have a four scoop option, but I made a huge mistake and only got two. Next time it's four for me. Speaking of delicious food, my roommate M.C.'s mom and sister came in to visit and we put in requests for things from the states, so naturally I asked for Reece's Pieces and got a pound bag, which I promptly devoured. They really don't have the chocolate/peanut butter combo around here, so I'm missing it.

Anyways, enough about food...I was supposed to go on a camping trip over the break, but it fell through, so I think me and two of my roommates are going to rent a car and drive along part of the coast called the Garden Route. It's supposed to be a beautiful drive with lots of beaches and nature reserves along the way. I think we're just going to play it by ear and see how far we get up the coast. I have to be back by Friday, because I'm running the Two Oceans half marathon on Saturday! I haven't been training as much as I should (and eating pound bags of reece's pieces...) so I really have no idea what kind of time I'll run, but it'll be fun just to do it. There's apparently a huge hill at the end of the race though, and "hill" around here generally means "mountain" so that should be interesting. I'm definitely looking forward to it though.