South Africa - Day 6 - Sun City

Arcade

Sleep

The plan today was to travel to Sun City, a resort a few hours north of Joburg which was buult up around a casino and now boasts 4 large hotels/casinos, waterpark, etc.

As per tradition, we went out for breakfast and had an even bigger breakfast than the day before. Pandaman had the chef make up something unique for him and I basically had a mixed grill complete with steak and everything! Best breakfast so far.

We hurriedly packed and PM and I jumped in the Audi. Rio and a Rob were going to join us after work later. 

On the way we stopped off to look at a large dam, which was very pretty and I was glad to see that there were no sharks in there. Just a bit further on however the satnav took us off the main road onto some roads we'd not been on before and we passes a "Warning: Risk of Hijacking" sign. We briefly considered putting the too up on the car but opted for just driving faster instead.

The dam in all it's glory

Back on the freeway a Golf GTi had to feel the wrath of the Audi S5 as he tried to race us but as we slowed from 225kph he was just a dot in the mirror.

We soon arrived at Sun City and attempted to blag an upgrade which failed. The rooms however overlooked the lake, and are very picturesque.

The view from our hotel room

We went to reception and booked up for a few things over the next 36 hours first of which was the jet skis. Now, surprisingly, I like jet skis and have been on them a few times but never have I seen them so controlled. The guys insist on sitting on the back to start with and talk you through doing a lap of the lake, then if they think you're ok, they jump off and let you do three more laps. None of this go where you want action.

We tried to stick close together so that we could at least jump through each other's wake but we got told off for that so we just had to cruise around for a few minutes. Luckily a speed boat went past so we hammered it through the wake and finally got some air. When the time came to go in, Pandaman tried to spray everyone who was waiting, but the bully guys blocked him with their jet ski.

As we were bone dry still after the jet skiing, which is a very unusual occur acne, we decided to go into the pool. It was getting late in the day so the pool was in shade and no one else was in there. We jumped in and woke up the hotel with our screams of how cold the water was and then swam around quickly to try and stop the onset of hypothermia.

We soon acclimatised of course and this is where we realised that neither of us had remembered to take the hotel keys out of our pockets. Mine was ok, just wet but PMs had floated off somewhere, oops.

Afterwards we hit the pool bar while we dried off and I sampled their Long Island Ice Teas which were very good. Once dry we travelled up to the entertainment centre, a building the size of a casino except filled with arcade games, places to eat and things to do.

Mark finally got to drive his Porsche

We decided to have the Europe vs Africa air hockey championships with me and PM in the final. The first two games were drawn and then I edged ahead and PM won the final game so it was a draw if not very close to a draw at the end. We had to stop however as we were both getting the hang of it by now and sonic booms could be heard as we were hitting the puck.

Rio and Rob arrived, so we met up with those guys and went for something to eat, Rob was close to gnawing his own arm off he was that hungry, and the answer to every question posed to him was simply 'FOOD'.

Mark, Rob and Pandaman on our own game drive

After pizza we hit the arcade again and won some of those tickets that you need 3.2 million of to win a pen. We only had about 25 tickets so I think we're allowed to use them to look at the sky or something. There was a cool basketball game however where I could use my height to my advantage and just lean over the barrier and drop the basketball in. Cheating rules.

At about midnight we called it a day and returned to our hotel, Rob wanted to go out and do some time-lapse of the stars and the rest of us were tired and had an early start the next day.