Protea Hotel Dolphin Beach Cape Town

... br>As you may have guessed Gemma has brought her laptop and after getting some WiFi broadband yesterday you can Skype us on 'Gemma.Huggins' best time for you and us is about
5.00 pm ASET as for us that's 8.00 am CAT (Central Africa Time).
Today we're off to Simonstown via Cape Of Good Hope to view the famous penguin colony there
and continue the Foodfari with lunch at "Bertha's" which comes highly recommended (by Craig as well). Off to breakfast.

... quick glimpse of the city from there and it's been so darn cloudy that it's now or never. Strange to think that it's summer back home when it's early autumn here. Miss you all and will write again soon. My creative juices aren't flowing right now so this is all I've got! ~ s. (for s. & d.) xxoo PS - I will never truly enjoy driving with Dan (DWD) - you'd think the manual car and driving on the wrong side (both ...

... in a movie, especially when everyone was swimming in it and the sun was setting. Watching the sunset that night was unreal. The stars were like nothing I've ever seen, even in more rural areas of the States. Here you can't see the big dipper, but you can see orion's belt really well as well as the southern cross. That was cool actually because Bubba has that tattooed on her leg cause her dad is Australian and its on their flag. Anyway, we slept ...

... about how the SAs think of our accent as a deeper roll of the Rs, and it came up how accents are so relative, i.e. when I think of Americans, I think that we don't have an accent, whereas everyone else does... and according to Heine, we have the accent, and everything sounds flat and straight to him. I thought that was so interesting. The racial differences here are so interesting, and it is also interesting to think of them as analogous to the US ...

The last day of the tour we went to the township of Khayelitsha which is appropriate I think since all of us will be working with children from townships. As we drove in the first thing I noticed was a sign that said "Don't Stare At My House". Township tours have become quite popular in South Africa and I'm guessing that the residents are beginning to feel like they are being exploited. Fair enough but even the tourists who only do "touristy" stuff can learn a great deal about the way ...

South Africa Everything is backwards here. It's winter and cold. They drive on the wrong side of the road and my rental car has the steering wheel and stickshift on the wrong side. And yes, toilets do flush backwards down here. They speak English here but the words are all different from what we are used to. When I got to the airport, I found my hired car in the parkade and I put my stuff in the boot. Then I made my way ...

... Her roommate was not pleased but we thought it was the funniest thing we had ever seen. After that, we met up with Dave and went and listened to some music at a level that was definitely not appropriate for 2am and Will and I played spin art in Lindsay and Britney's toilet with toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, facewash, dial soap and probably some other various bathroom liquids that I can't remember at this time. I headed back to the room, and apparently ...

... along the way. I stopped at Boulders Beach, home of the African penguin, before ending up at the Cape. After the Cape, I drove to Hermanus, about a 90 minute drive east of Cape Town. During August, it's suppose to be a great place for whale watching. Unfortunately, I only saw one whale in the bay. It was worth going none the less. It was also nice to see more of South Africa.

... grazing just feet from the car, we slowed and stared at them for quite awhile, their long necks seemingly picturesque against the ocean waves crashing behind them. We had a small picnic and then started the hike down to the tip of the Cape of Good Hope....tons of stairs carved in the rocks to a central plateau with signs telling just how far it was to many key places in the world. Then we took some of the other trails winding down to the point ...

Hey all, A week later and soo much has gone on and it feels like only a few days have past. Since I last wrote Linnea and I have been to a vineyard called 'Stellabosch' where they made very nice wine, obviously. We also eat a traditional South Africa meal called a 'Botani??' Something like that. Very tasty and one of dads favourites which he has once a year. We then decided to take a day trip around ...