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Some of the links I've looked into for planning south africa 2010 http://www.bluetrain.co.za/images/route-map.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckBgRTJJiPY http://www.seat61.com/images/SA-map.jpg http://www.seat61.com/SouthAfrica.htm http://goafrica.about.com/od/southafrica/a/satravelfacts_2.htm http://www.lonelyplanet.com/south-africa/transport/getting-around http://www.iexplore.com/cityguides/South+Africa/Cape+Town/Do%27s+and+Don%27ts http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=-28.998532,25.092773&spn=12.265138,17.270508&z=6
WORLD CUP 2010 ticket lottery sign up available now! Individual world cup 2010 matches I signed up for: Match 59 - QF - W52 v W51 - 3 July 16:00 Green Point Stadium- Category 1 Quantity 2 - Price $ 600.00 Match 61 - SF- W58 v W57 - 6 July 20:30 Green Point Stadium- Category 2 Quantity 2 - Price $ 800.00 Match 64 - Final - 11 July 20:30 Soccer City Stadium- Category 3 Quantity 2 - Price $ 800.00 One choice is to plan this ourselves or do let a tour operator do this, but tickets are done by lottery for them as well, so there is no guarantee that they get a ticket to the final, for example.  So I think try to get a lottery ticket, if we don't succeed, then turn to a tour operator who may have tickets.  Don't know what pricing/surcharge tour operators are in comparison to doing it ourselves.  3 million tourists over this month though, so I'm betting there will be lots to do and lots of big signs everywhere. I'm setting between 5 or 10k for the overall trip cost; 3k for spor...

dinner party download: ice breakers 16

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There was these two old buddies who lived down in Alabama - they were hunting buddies and they decided they was goin' to go fishing this one time.  They were sitting down in a boat, and one of 'em says; Josh:  Well Mark, we've been friends for a long time, haven't we? Mark:  That's right Josh.  Josh: Tell me Mark, i f you was out hunting by yourself sometime, and I happen to sneak over and get with your misses and we have a baby, would that make us kin? Mark: N o, um. That'd make us even.  Jerry Cherryholmes, dinner party download, ep 16.