The city of Bloemfontein was quite interesting hundreds of years ago because it was slightly barren and covered and protected by hills. The wife of the Sr. Captain Warden who started to erect the city back in 1851 started to develop the city to help meet the needs of his family. Eventually they grew a garden, but this was unnatural since the city sat in the middle of no where. Inevitably, the wife began calling it by Bloemfontein meaning "Flower Fountain", and so the name stuck. Our guide spoke to us about how the more and more important people started to reside here back in the nineteen hundreds which changed this city to become what it is today.
I wish I could video this guy speaking to us. He is awesome :) He is jumping around, wildly using his hands and arms to talk about the history and he is stuttering because he is totally nervous, but LOVES what he does which is totally clear. I want to take him home with me because he is so happy and so adorable :) I'm sure Don won't mind.
He is so excited and speaking so quickly that right now I am not even sure what he is talking about - hahaha. There better not be a quiz after this :)
By the way, after this rather brief introduction of the city via computer, we then took a tour through the city. Bet you didn't know that this was going to be a slight jogging/running tour. I literally counted 5 times where we ran to catch our guide :)
Other than that, the day was pretty calm. This was excellent because it has been nice chi relax and not have a full schedule. Sitting here back at our place watching the movie Coraline (super creepy p.s) and enjoying some Biltong as a little snack. This stuff is de-lic-ous and needs to be in the US asap. I have pretty much out down somewhere around 3lbs. of this stuff already and completely intend to consume more. Is that normal? I say so :)
Tomorrow should be a good day with a 10:45 start time, look out Cheetah Experience!
- With all my thanks :)
Location:Bloemfontein, South Africa
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