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Capetown adventures

Sunday night was pretty uneventful, we had Indian for dinner- not my fav. But it was ok. Dave Sara and I went out after to find a pub or something fun, we ended up at an Irish pub (go figure! The irish are everywhere) there was live music but it was pretty empty- sunday nights aren't all that popular for getting wasted I guess. Monday we bought a ticket for the hop on hop off bus around Capetown. The first stop we chose to see was a local market- I think everyone except me bought something crafty-esque. We got back on the bus and I got off at the SA Museum, arranged to meet back on the bus at whatever time. The other 3 kids went to the District 6 museum and my parents went to something to do with jewellery. At the museum I ran into 3 women who were at Singita (in Kruger) with us!! Crazy small world we live in!! The museum was ok, nothing exciting. I got back on the bus and picked the others up along the way. Next stop: Table Mountain. The weather had cleared up- it was still windy and kind of cold but it was semi-sunny. We took the cable car to the top and it was sooo much colder up there haha. We took pics and then took cover in the coffee shop!! After Table Mountain we drove aroiund the coast to Camps Bay where it was rumored that there would be hot surfers but I didn't see any. It was beautiful though!!!! Mountains and beach and huuugeee waves, beautiful. I climbed some rocks and dodged the water, Dave clampered up after me and we posed for some great pics! We grabbed some lunch there before heading back to the hotel area. There we wandered around the craft markets and made random purchases. I bought a little hippo head necklace like my fish one from Barcelona...I think I'm going to collect random pieces of jewellery like this as we go- I have the sea turtle anklet from Santorini too. Anyways, the hippo's name is Wyclef after the guy who sold him to me haha. Ummm after that we didn't really do anything, then met up for dinner.
Tuesday I stayed in bed for a long time, we didn't have to check out until 11am so I took advantage and lazed around for a while. The girls wandered around I think, and then all of us met up, got some lunch/bfast and wandered around some more. The weather was beautiful, we sat outside and read for a while and got a tan :) hooray for sunshine!! Didn't realy do much, then packed up and headed to the airport. Mum and dad dropped us off as if they live there ha it was kind of funny. B/c of what happened at the begining of the SA trip Dave, me and the girls came to England about 4 days early, but my parents are in SA until Saturday. Soooo we went through, Dave and I looked at buying liquor in duty free but eventually decided against 2 litres!! got on the plane surrounded by old people and little kids! The kids were cutu, the old people were not, and they were crabby. The flight was about 12 hours, overnight, so it wasn't too bad. We watched "The Lakehouse" which I enjoyed. Then we passed out. I woke up at about 4am with 3 hours to go...couldn't sleep so I dunno what I did but the time went by haha maybe I fell asleep again.
Arrived in London this morning- Dave had some issues getting through customs but it wasn't too bad. The 3 of us with British passports breezed through customs haha, Dave got 20questions, but she also got a stamp!! I didn't :( this is country #6 and I only have 1 stamp!!
Jamie (Sara and Lauras cousin) who I grew up with too, picked us up from the airport bright and early this morning. Although it wasn't bright, it was dark and raining! We came back to Sara and Laura's house, changed and ambitiously took off to London on the train. We hit Oxford street for some quality shopping, only to find after the first couple of shops that it was pouring with rain! We dodged it for a while but eventually got soaked!! We called it quits and came home, peeled off our soaked clothes, made piles of laundry EVERYWHERE! Started some washing, showered etd and now we're just hanging out. Tonight we're going to a pub in St.Albans, where we grew up, to watch the England v. Croatia friendly, hooray England!!
Cheerio!
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posted by Kirby @ 8:50 AM