The rest of the story.

So, the shower was amazing. Seriously, I would have considered it the best shower of the trip for sure and possibly ever...not kidding. The water had a pressure knob and a thermostat (great even if it was in Celsius - which I still don't understand). Glorious!

After my last post, we were on our way to Drakensburg and what a beautiful place it was. (Now that I am home, I can share pictures.)


In Drakensburg, we went for what the guide called a "hike". We called it mountain climbing. It took about 6 hours to climb to the summit of the Drakensburg mountains - 3,210 meters. (For those of you who are in touch with the metric conversions...that's about 9,600 feet.) We did so much mental math trying to figure everything out! One part of the climb was nearly straight up, it took an hour to scale all the rocks. Then to get out the mountains, we climbed down chain ladders. It was so scary and incredible. (That's Tiffany climbing down.)

The next day we were off to Lesotho, the world's highest country, or so they claimed. I just confirmed according to About. com, Lesotho (pronounced Le-sue-too) has the highest minimum elevation just over 4,530 feet. Lesotho was one of my favorite places. We were able to see the African culture at its most un-westernized state. So cool. We even went to a local party and tasted without enjoyment local brew (some sort of icky beer) and food (corn and beans).

We ended up in Mokopane, the city near Kristen's township and went to the school for the disabled called the Center for Hope. To be honest, it seemed about as hopeless as it could be. I would like to think; however, that when we left, those kids felt uplifted and cared for. It was such a hard thing to experience. But the kids were so wonderful, and we all really enjoyed spending some time with them. Honestly, the part that was the hardest, was that we had to show them how to play with most of the stuff we took. Chalk, paints, play-doh, recorders and so many other things were things they had never seen. Here are some kiddos using the chalk to decorate my "thanks" to everyone. Once they got the hang of it, the entire porch and part of the walls were covered with chalk.

Thanks so much to everyone who helped out.