Day 19 10/30/10

We made it, we are in Cape Town! The flight from Joburg went very smoothly. We made sure that we got to the airport early so we could return the car and have our bags wrapped with plastic. The bag is put into a clamp, the machine then spins the bag and bam the bag is wrapped! All in all smooth sailing through the airport, and we didn’t even have to take our shoes off. After checking into our hotel we headed off to Table Mountain. Table Mountain is smack dab in the middle of Cape Town it can be seen from all over the city! Well any way when we arrived they just closed down due to high winds which makes it unsafe to run the cable car and also the table cloth, a thick cloud layer which looks like well a table cloth, was too dense! So we regrouped and drove down to the Victoria and Albert water front. It is a wonderful place filled with stores, restaurants, street performers and people enjoying life! After wandering around the waterfront and in and out of countless shops we built up quite the appetite so we began browsing menus! Each restaurant keeps a copy or copies of their menus outside and the staff stands by waiting to help you decide to dine at their establishment. We finally decided to have dinner at a South African restaurant named Karibu which means welcome in Swahili! I had the “line fish of the day” white salmon pan seared with putu and chakalaka which is a traditional dish of beans over a white corn meal. Will had the white salmon grilled with the putu chakalaka we both followed up with decadent deserts, or puddings as they call them here! Tomorrow we are heading down to the Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. Penguins and ostriches await!