Unbelievably, more than two weeks have already gone by! This is our last night at Marc and Claire's for tomorrow we head to the Farm... Rob and Wayne's olive farm to be precise. Our plan is to stay there over the weekend then head to the hostels in Cape Town for our final (sniff!) week in SA.
The time has absolutely flown by because we have been really busy. We went to the V&A again on saturday and I managed to at last watch a band play on the stage there - The Ragdolls. Even Managed to win a fairly hefty beltbuckle by going to the front of the stage and dancing and headbanging away with Boll and one of the band's groupies.
Other highlights during the week were swimming in Blouberg beach's waters which were freezing! We were there to see the Big Swim from Robben Island, where 170 swimmers did the 7ks in 13 degree waters! Natalie De Toye won despite only having one leg, then jetted off to Beijing the next day to prepare for the olympics! On monday we went to Cape Point. Of course the views and scenery are stunning, but what really made the day was when we went to the sanddunes. It was fairly surreal, like a lucid dream where the colours are all super-enhanced, and the sand was absolutely pure - till we jumped all over it!
We also finally met up with Rob on tuesday who took us to see a wonderful show, the Kramer-Peterson Songbook. The next day we went to the Grand West with Marc and Claire to see another show, a Queen tribute/review. It was really good fun, but the Grand West itself was just incredible, Sol Kersner is some kind of mad genius. He's created a casino without time, a whole world in itself where everything is always going, there are daylight, twilight and nighttime areas that all make you feel like you are outside and also very confused, and the whole place is absolutely massive.
Now for the excitement, I got bitten by a spider! It swelled up to the size of half a golf ball, but after using copious amounts of drawing ointment it is now on the mend. It is still tender, but at least half of my left arm isn't sore any more!
And finally, like the true manly masculine alpha males we are, Alex and I climbed Table Mountain today! We'd had been organising it for some time with Craig, one of Natasha's friends. He said today would be a good day and it was! We went with him, and his father who is a doctor so Julia and mum, you can stop worrying now. We didn't get mugged, and had a great time, but we did get very tired, and now I am a proper rooinek (and chest, and shoulders).
