Friends, fun and...baboons?

I don’t know that I can adequately put into words just how awesome the past few days have been!  We spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Rocklands putting on a retreat for the volunteer leaders of Southpoint Church. It was such a great time! What an honor to be able to create space for their leaders to come have fun and feel refueled.  What an amazing group of people. We had a great time, and they were even such an encouragement and blessing to us in return.

Here’s a few pics from the retreat:

Some of the teams working on a few dance moves for a team competition…

Me hosting Church Family Feud!

Some of the awesome leaders!

Me at the top of our free time mini-hike.

Would you believe we saw ANOTHER rainbow as we were leaving the retreat! It touched right down into the water directly in front of us…spectacular!

Some of our team also had a first-hand encounter with a seriously massive baboon...like, in our cabin. Yikes! Don't worry - amidst the fear, Jana had time to catch him on video - we'll post that soon!

We then spent another day with some of our favorite Southpoint Church peeps checking out the beautiful coast of the cape…all the way down to the Cape of Good Hope.  I can’t even adequately describe the beauty in words, you just have to see it for yourself:

Beautiful drive down the cape.

Cape of Good Hope…next stop, South Pole – straight ahead!

We wrapped up our time here today watching a little coverage live of the Royal Wedding! Since we were on the same timezone as England, we were lucky and didn’t have to get up at the crack of dawn to see the festivities!  Here’s a pic of us hanging out with Prince Charles, the Queen & Camilla.

We then had a lovely evening hanging out with the amazing Hastings family for a good old fashioned home cooked meal and a winner-takes-all card game of Hand & foot. I had never played it before, but it was SO fun!

I can’t believe we’re headed home tomorrow! It’s been such an amazing time of continuing friendships and building new ones…what an absolute blessing. I’m not looking forward to the looong ride home, but I am looking forward to some Chic-fil-a, I’m not gonna lie. I’ll see you all in the states, and I hope to see all my South African friends again soon..thanks for the wonderful hospitality!!