Vic Falls to Jo’Burg

Since we don’t head for the airport until 11 am everyone slept in and had a late breakfast except Me and John. After our early breakfast we walked to the tourist shopping district when we could buy wild animal figures, tee shirts, African print clothing, stone carvings, woven baskets, wood bowls or salad forks, beaded things, jewelry and junk. We bought nothing but enjoyed the cool morning and our walk.

At the airport Kathy and Paul said their goodbyes as they were booked on a different airline to Johannasburg then they fly home. But we saw them again at passport control. Katy and Lanny also flew home today out of Jo’burg.

Now its Mary & Jack, Dave & Mickey and us who will spent another day in Jo’burg. We are staying in the Davinci Hotel in Sandton, a suburb of Johannesburg and considered the new business center of the city. Jo-town has over 15 million people and not much in the way of mass transit so traffic was bumper to bumper. John was reading out loud some info about our hotel from Yelp “it is a chick hotel with . . .” Seeing some perplexed looks I told him its pronounced “sheek” even though its spelled “chic”. Poor guy was teased unmercifully! I think we might be a bit giddy!

The Davinci is located in Nelson Mandela Square and next to Sandton shopping center, all connected by walkways. A highly rated restaurant, Trumps Steakhouse, is just meters away so we had a great dinner before calling it night.