My parents recently took\u00a0 a trip to South Africa. Below are some comments my mom made about the trip. I was hoping to link to some photos of the trip, but my father hasn’t bothered to upload them yet. I am going to stay on him. Maybe we will see some soon.<\/p>\n
We [Bill and Betty] returned from South Africa last week [now three weeks ago] on Monday, October 27th from an eleven day trip.\u00a0 It was a wonderful trip.\u00a0 We went with a delegation representing Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.\u00a0 We visited Johannesburg, Sun City (which is a resort city), and Cape Town.\u00a0 Our trip included a visit to an elementary school and an orphanage.\u00a0 The group took school supplies to the school and made monetary contributions to the orphanage.\u00a0 This was the second trip to South Africa for Bill and me.\u00a0 We were happy to see the growth there since our visit in 2001.\u00a0 New buildings were going up everywhere and there were lots of street expansions.\u00a0 Bill had a chance to play golf in Cape Town.\u00a0 We visited a winery and brought back two bottles of wine.\u00a0\u00a0 We visited four museums that explained different aspects of struggles and endurance by the people before and during apartheid.\u00a0 We saw lively and colorful entertainment and enjoyed several authentic South African meals.\u00a0 We visited Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent most of his prison time.\u00a0 We went to the top of Table Mountain and\u00a0 enjoyed the spectacular view.Our tour included a botanical garden, and the group even took a safari.\u00a0 We celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary in South Africa.\u00a0 It was a day we will always remember, it ended with a candle light steak dinner with our group.\u00a0 There were champagne toasts and\u00a0 dancing.\u00a0 Some members of our group arranged for the pianist to play two love songs just for us.\u00a0 People in South Africa were very excited about our then up coming election.\u00a0 I know they celebrated on November 4th with the rest of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My parents recently took\u00a0 a trip to South Africa. Below are some comments my mom made about the trip. I was hoping to link to some photos of the trip, but my father hasn’t bothered to upload them yet. I am going to stay on him. Maybe we will see some soon. We [Bill and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-trips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmOjo-6K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}