Flying to Africa

Day 1: Leaving San Francisco, next stop Dubai!
We get up in the morning at our grandparents house in San Francisco. We eat lunch at Yank Sing, our favorite dim-sum restaurant. Then we take off at SFO airport on an Airbus double-decker A380 for the longest flight of my life. The sixteen hour flight didn't feel very long, but I dared myself not to sleep. I did it! And because I had gotten up at 7:00 am in California, I had not slept for 25 hours straight. We arrived in Dubai in the late evening and stayed in a hotel inside Terminal 3, which between 2008-2013 was the largest building in the world! When we got to our hotel room, I fell asleep immediately.

Day 2 & 3: December 17th (we skip a day!)

We wake up at the airport hotel (at 04:30 because of the time zones). The airport terminal, Terminal 3, was the largest building on the planet from 2008 until 2011 or something like that. The place is huge, and the hotel is kind of hanging in a glass pod inside the airport. We still have plenty of time before our flight so we take a swim in the airport hotel pool.. After we get out of the pool, we went to eat breakfast at an airport restaurant, called Cosi and proceeded to the boarding area for our next plane ride.
This flight across the entire african continent to Cape Town, South Africa was nine hours. Finally we arrive in Cape Town. We take a taxi into town where we are going to be staying for the next five days to our really cool house located in the old Cape Malay muslim

neighborhood, called the Bo Kaap. After we run all over the house (it has a rooftop deck where you can see Table Mountain) we take a walk down to the Victoria and Albert Waterfront port and have hamburgers. The waterfront is super old, and is one of the ports of the world that people repeatedly tried to establish but which the ocean kept taking away. It looks really old. Afterwards, we took a taxi home and and fell right to sleep.