Diamonds, gold, old time photos, and roller coasters

We started our day early today and made our way to Pretoria, one of the three capitals of South Africa. While there we fist visited to Voortrekker monument which was built after the battle of bloody river where the Dutch defeated the Zulus. This is a controversial monument since some believe it is a monument about the murder of the local people of the land. The monument itself is stunning.  From there we drove around the city and saw the presidents building and then made our way to a local diamond mine where we toured the surface areas of an active diamond mine. We quickly made our way back to Soweto so that we could visit Gold Reef City which is an old gold mine that is now a museum and amusement park. We toured the museums and watched how gold bricks are made and how much they are worth. Then we had a bit of fun for our last site visit. We took old time photos as a group then ran off and started riding roller coasters. When we finished it was off to get dressed up for our farewell dinner where we had a big surprise, our tour guide from Zimbabwe Blessing joined is for the evening in celebration of Lizzie's birthday!!! The photos are giving a problem uploading but I will get them attached as soon as possible.