10-04 / Observatory!

That night we headed to Observatory which is a city right near Cape Town. Loryn heard about a place called A Touch of Madness where they had poetry readings and it sounded really nice so we decided to stop in. We caught a cab and he headed that way, then got lost so we hopped out and asked from some direction and after a few wrong turns we found it. It was still early (about 630) so we decided to get something to drink before hand and headed to a place called Obz Cafe. We all split a bottle of wine (Loryn, Ariel, Damian & I) and chatted with each other and made friend with the waiter. Who was a stand up comedian and wicked funny! Around 8 we headed back to catch the readings. So many of them were amazing! There were some duds but I can’t really judge seeing as I don’t have the talent, or the guts to get up and read in from of a crowd. After the readings we headed to the bar across the hall and we started talking to one of the people who read their poetry. His name was Evan and we ended up learning he actually knew someone on the ship! He knew the nurse Stephanie and she originally had plans to go work on his farm (which is IN a wild game reserve) for a few days and volunteer there but unfortunately she was the lucky one how had to be on call for Cape Town. Well one thing led to another and (I think it was Ariel) asked if we could come instead and Evan said yeah we could! Woohooo

The rest of the night was spent bar hopping. We went to a bar called Dubliners and it was really fun! We met some cool locals and some fellow SASers and danced the night away! Then we went to this sketchy bar called Mercury were the floors were sticky and they were playing like death metal techno .. WEIRDD. And there was a stage with a couch on it.. so me and Ariel went to go dance on the stage.. then we found a guy PASSED OUT on the couch and there were huge speakers blaring right next to him.. needless to say we weren’t there long.