Friday, November 27, 2009

Capetown

Our final stop in South Africa was Capetown. It is a wonderful city. We stayed at the Cape Grace which is on the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. The area is amazing. It has cute shops and great restaurants all right on the waterfront and all within walking distance.
This is our hotel and Table Mountain in the background
Cape Fur Seals
Our hotel the Cape Grace
Our lil sisters at the aquarium that is on the V & A Waterfront. It was a very neat aquarium and a nice afternoon outing

This is in the wine country. We took a tour one day to Franschoek and Stellenbosch. These are two cities outside of Capetown that have tons of wineries. We went to a couple of them and got to have a wine tasting. There were some amazing wines and the vineyards are just beautiful.

An old cathedral. The buildings in these towns were just amazing. Most of them were old buildings that had been renovated with cute little gift shops, coffee shops and restaurants. It was great to just be able to walk around and shop here.
We also went to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point. Very cool to think about the history that is here and when the Cape of Good Hope was found.

These are South African Penguins. There is a colony of them at Boulder Beach, which is outside of Capetown. They are the cutest little things! We had so much fun watching them play and swim. There little waddle was so funny.

The ones that look like they have fur on them are babies. Once they get into their "teens" They lose the furry-ness (is that's a word) and just have the soft feathers.
Cute little babies
The whole fam

The girls with Table Mountain behind them
Getting ready to get on the gondola to go to the top of Table Mountain
The view from Table Mountain. It was so pretty to see the city from here and to be above the clouds
Us on the top of Table Mountain

Our time in South Africa was just amazing and I cannot wait to get back. There are so many things to see there and so many things that we don't have. It was a wonderful trip

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