- [Woman] And it was like right behind our car.
- Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of.
- Behind the Braids.
- In this episode you're gonna follow us along
as our family does Spring Break,
but this year we did it in
- Africa! Wooh!
- Kamri says that this, she thinks,
was her favorite Spring Break.
- [Kamri] Oh yeah.
- And I'm gonna have to agree with her,
this was a really awesome trip,
one of my favorites for sure.
Now the littles didn't come with us,
because they're just too little
to make the huge long flight,
and deal with the time changes,
so they got to stay here with the babysitter,
and we've thrown in some pictures
of what fun things they got to do while we were in Africa.
If you guys haven't already checked out
Brooklyn and Bailey's lyric video, you need to do that.
You can click the I button right here and find it,
it's so awesome, we incorporated tons of videos
from all of their fans and all of their followers,
it's very fun, and don't forget
that their actual music video is releasing
in just a couple short weeks,
so be sure to check that out as well.
- So close.
- Yay.
Alright, let's go.
- Hey guys, we are on our way to Africa.
We have, what, 14 and a half hours.
- 14 and a half hours.
- Not as long as Dubai, but.
- Not as long as Dubai, but it's pretty long.
- Yeah.
- Hey guys, it's Bailey and we are in South Africa.
So, basically we've been traveling
for like the past 24 hours.
- A long time.
- A really, really long time,
and we just barely made it to our hotel,
and so we decided to kind of hang out
and find somewhere to eat and just like look around,
you know, and kind of get a feel for things
before we start our adventures for the next nine days.
- We reached the waterfront.
- [Bailey] Yes we did, and we are currently chilling here.
The scenery is amazing.
- Want to show them Table Mountain?
- Yeah, check it out
This is Table Mountain.
See right there?
That's Table Mountain, right there.
Today we are taking a tour of Cape Town city,
and then we are going to see some penguins,
and we're super excited.
- And so we were driving,
and all of a sudden the driver stopped,
because there's a bunch of baboons on the side of the road.
You see those little babies right there?
Cute.
And they're like jumping in front of our bus,
so he can't drive, cause he stopped it.
It's hilarious.
- So, we were driving along Chapman Road,
and we stopped, where?
- At an overlook, by Hout Beach.
- And, check out the view.
Ta da.
It's literally beautiful,
look at how gorgeous this is.
Like, I knew it was going to be pretty coming here,
but I didn't realize it'd be like literally,
everywhere I look I'm just like ah.
- Oh, hi.
I'm taking pictures.
- We're taking,
like literally her whole family's got their cameras out,
we're ready to go.
- I'm touching the water at the very bottom right corner
of Africa right now.
Like literally the bottom of Africa right now.
Also, water that's touching Antarctica,
so we're on the bottom of Africa,
touching water that's touching Antarctica.
- Marilyn, where are we going?
- [Marilyn] To this lighthouse that's like very far away.
- [Rylan] Exactly how far away, do you know?
- Marilyn] Probably a mile, walking.
- [Rylan] That far away.
It's all the way up there.
- We had stopped for lunch,
and there is an option for ostrich on the menu.
Okay, this is my first bite of ostrich right here.
- [Man] You know, you are what you eat, right?
- Doesn't taste bad, it just doesn't taste good.
- [Man] What do you mean doesn't taste good?
- It doesn't taste like what I thought it would.
- [Man] Yeah, we got some non-adventurous eaters over here,
getting fettucini alfredo.
- Yeah.
- [Marilyn] Where are we headed Rylan?
- To go see the penguins.
- [Bailey] To see the penguins.
- [Rylan] They are so cute,
but I don't even know if you can see 'em.
Cleaning him for him.
- [Bailey] How many penguins do you think we just saw?
- At least.
- [Man] Two thousand, two hundred.
- Two thousand, two, I was gonna say two hundred.
- [Bailey] And Dad, where do they come from?
- 1984, four penguins, two breeding pair
created all that.
- So, we are at the final stop of the day,
and it is the Botanical Gardens.
Kirsten Bosch, I think I said that right.
- [Rylan] Kirsten Bosch, kind of hard to say.
- Like we've literally walked like three steps in
and it's seriously so pretty.
So, he said there's something like
these walkways in the trees or something,
so that's where we're headed.
- We're at the top of Signal Mountain.
- [Woman] Signal Hill.
- That's where they shoot of a gun
at 12 o'clock every day, and the view is very nice up here,
I will say, so I'll show you guys.
- [Woman] That's Robben Island over there.
- [Bailey] Robben Island over there.
- [Man] That's where ah.
- [Bailey] Nelson Mandela was imprisoned.
- [Man] That's where he spent 18 of his.
- [Bailey] 28 years.
- [Man] Or 17 of his years over there.
- Hey guys, we're on our way to go donate
some school supplies to some local kids.
We're gonna go drop it off at a hostel
and they will bring it to the kids.
- Like six bags.
- Yeah, we have like crayons, markers,
- Scissors, erasers.
- Pencils, papers, toys.
- Jump ropes.
- [Bailey] Chalk, all this fun stuff that they can use.
And we're gonna go drop it off at a hostel
and then they will take it to the school for us.
- We kept a couple of them,
so that way we can hand them out to the kids personally,
but, for the most part we're just dropping them off.
- [Bailey] Alright, so after passing
this little neighborhood earlier, we had to come back.
- We had to come back.
- [Bailey] Check out the cuteness.
It's just like a bunch of houses,
with all these fun colors.
This is so cute.
Some of you asked earlier where Rylan was
in some of our pictures.
This is where Rylan has been,
because why Rylan?
- I'm sick.
- [Woman] Rylan decided to come down with strep
while we were gone.
She's actually looking a little better now.
- Yeah.
- Good thing we had some antibiotics with us,
so she's hopefully gonna be feeling better tomorrow,
and not running a fever for shark diving.
- Yeah, super excited.
- Hey guys, it's Bailey, and it is, what time right now?
We woke up at 4:15, and drove,
well, we woke up at 3:30, left the hotel at 4:15,
and now it's 7, so we had quite a drive.
But, we have arrived and guess what we're doing today?
Great Shark, White Shark, cage diving.
Also, in case you guys are wondering,
I got a bug bite underneath my eyelid right here,
like right here, so my eye's super swollen right now,
so that's why it looks funny,
like one eye's swollen and the other eye's not.
That is why.
Mom is going first.
How was it?
- Very cold.
- [Man] Hot chocolate?
- [Bailey] You want some hot chocolate?
- My hands are freezing.
But, we saw a shark, ah.
- [Bailey] So, Rylan,
you want to tell us what just happened?
- Yeah, uh, I threw up.
- [Bailey] She just threw up.
Either sea sickness or not feeling good,
one of the two.
- [Man] Sea sickness.
- [Bailey] Sea sickness.
Came pretty fast, too.
Alright, Brooklyn's turn to go in, and dad.
Are you nervous?
Excited?
- I'm scared.
- [Bailey] Nervous to be cold?
Hey Brooklyn, wave your hand.
- Hey guys, and so we are up here, in line,
waiting to get on the cable car to take us
to the top of Table Mountain, right.
We just barely finished going Great White Shark
cage diving, and we had some extra time,
and so we all got re-dressed, cause we smelled like fish,
and we came up here, and now we're ready to go.
So, we're all excited.
We made it to the top.
Let me show you the view, this is incredible.
Literally, holy cow.
Okay, so after a full day of traveling,
we have finally arrived to destination two.
We are currently in, well,
we're on the outsides of Johannesburg.
We are in this, like this outdoor hotel,
in the middle of what they call the bush.
We're in the middle of nowhere, pretty much.
And they're like cute little huts,
and we get to go on three safaris while we're here.
And it's just like super cute and I'm so excited.
Good morning guys, it's how early in the morning?
- Six.
- It's six o'clock in the morning,
and we're about to go on our second safari.
- No, it's almost seven.
- We're about to go on our second safari,
we went on one yesterday and we saw elephants,
like a huge herd of them.
We saw a Black Mamba,
which is like this really dangerous snake.
- And really long, too.
- Like how number ranking of poisonous?
- Five.
Number five in the world.
- Isn't it six?
It's number five in the world.
Scary, I think yes.
So, we're about to go and adventure a little bit more,
and see if we can find more animals.
Our goal is to see giraffe today.
- Or zebras.
- That's what we want to see, or zebras, yeah.
I'm getting up close and personal.
Oh my gosh, it's so close.
Oh my gosh.
So we just got back from a safari,
and basically what happened was,
first we were like wishing to see giraffes,
and we saw them,
and then there was actually a lion chasing them,
and so they were like running,
and there was a lion that literally ran like,
how close was it to our car, dad?
- [Man] It was like 10 yards.
- It was like 10 yards away from our car.
Like just booked it, and it's this massive animal.
We're all like oh my gosh.
It stopped and it was like walking around
and so we walked up to it,
I guess drove up to it,
and it was like right behind our car
and my mom was freaking out 'cause there was this giant cat.
And, anyway, he started circling our car
so we like booked out of there,
but we got video and it was so cool.
- So, today's our last safari,
it's bright and early in the morning,
and then after this we pack up our stuff and we head out.
We have a three hour bus ride to the airport,
a five hour wait in the airport,
a 14 hour plane ride, then we land in New York City,
switch airports, have like another four hour wait,
then another three hour plane ride,
and then like a 30, 45 minute drive home.
We have quite the trek ahead of us.
- Alright buddy, guess what?
I brought you back something from South Africa.
Can you guess what it is?
- Um, no.
- [Man] No, alright, here you go.
Dag, when you're 11 year old.
What is it?
- A shark tooth.
- [Man] What kind is it, though?
It's petrified, so it's like old, old, old, old, old.
Pretty cool, huh?
It's a necklace, so you can wear it.
- Can I get it out?
- [Man] You can get it out if you want.
What do you think?
- It's cool.
- [Man] What do you say?
- Thank you.
- [Man] You're welcome.
- So, we just got home and we were going through
packages from when we were in Africa,
and this one was in the mail.
- Mommy, mommy.
- Open it.
Whose name is that?
- Paisley's.
- [Woman] Paisley's.
- I have that you.
- [Woman] I heard, yep.
- I heard that you.
- [Woman] Enjoy.
- Enjoy watching my.
- [Woman] Channel.
- Channel, and watching.
- [Woman] Wanted.
- Wanted to say thank you.
Love, Ro.
- [Woman] Ro.
Who's our Paisley?
Look at.
Look at the stickers she sent you.
Nerdy Nummies.
- Nerdy Nummies.
Yes, I got the Nerdy Nummies cookbook.
- [Woman] And a pink spatula just for you.
What do you say?
- Thank you.
- Thanks so much for watching this video,
and watching our trip to Africa.
Hey, Kam, what was your favorite part?
- I think my favorite part would have to be the safaris,
'cause we saw a lot of different animals.
- We did, the Black Mamba, which wasn't in video,
'cause it happened so fast, was really, really creepy.
- Yeah, scary.
- That was creepy.
But I think I just loved Cape Town in general,
it was so beautiful.
Like I was unprepared for how many
beautiful beaches and mountains were there.
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