poppy’s journal notes

Day one/two

So yesterday we woke up early and Sasha and Erin picked us up. Next we drove to the bus station and got on a bus to Boston and we met papa and grandma julie there. We walked to the train station and got on a train to dc. The bus ride was only two hours long but the train ride was seven hours long, so after those long long seven hours of watching tv and playing Sky Jo we finally got off in Washington DC. So it was about 6:00 or 6:30 and we went to our hotel it was called the Marriot hotel. We changed into different clothes and walked to dinner. The next day mom and dad went to get lattes for them and Starbucks for us. That day we saw: the White House, the Lincoln memorial, the capital building, the Washington monument, and the African American museum. That afternoon at 3:00 we got a Uber  to the airport and got on our FOURTEEN HOUR flight to Cape Town South Africa.

Day three/four

Yesterday we got off the plane in Cape Town South Africa, we got an Uber to our apartment and settled in. The power occasionally goes off so we didn’t have power during dinner, we went out to get some groceries for dinner forgetting that it goes off and when we got home we had to just order a pizza. The following day we, well I slept in, we had breakfast and walked in to town for lunch. After that we just walked to the beach and shops. Once we saw the beach we realized that we should have worn our bathing suits so we got groceries and went home to change. After we we went swimming we walked home, had dinner and went to bed.

Day five/six

So yesterday we went for a township tour in Langa South Africa. I think our guide did a great job describing how hard it is to live in that environment and how they have small houses and barely, food and they used to be separated from each other. Today we took a boat to Robben island and learned about Nelson Mandela his history and we got to see his cell we also learned about other peoples lives in prison. After the tour we went out to lunch and while we were getting off the boat we saw three seals in a fenced in area of the boardwalk after lunch we went to some stores. That night dad Lucy and I (mom wasn’t felling good) went to dad’s friends house and had snacks.