Day 8 - Saturday

Robertson's Wacky Wine Weekend is here! Piled into a bus in the morning with our students and about 60 other students here working with Connect 123. A long drive to Robertson, and saw our first monkeys lining the highway. Stopped at a vineyard for wine tasting and live jazz. Then another stop for more wine tasting, and moonshine from a still. They had a slide that dumps you into a pool of wine. Our host went down, I did not ;) On to the next 2 stops. Half the group went on a boat ride, the rest on to another vineyard to blend and bottle our own wine. Everyone having an awesome time. People from all over flock to Robertson for this event. I met a lot of people from different areas in South Africa. Everyone speaks with a strong accent. Did not run across another American outside our group. We only went to 4 places, but there were many more on the list.

Finally to our last stop. A vineyard with a live band, lots more wine, and tents set up to camp there. After leaving our stuff and a sleeping boy in the tent, I headed out to party a bit. On the way back, realized my tent was somewhere in the middle of a sea of about 100 identical tents! Spent a long time wondering around calling the boys name. My students showed up at the tent site, and the boys split up and starting poking their heads in tent after tent until one of them finally found him. Fast asleep. Yay! I dove into my tent and crashed. Felt like 4am, but it was only 10.