The last few days in Cape Town have been spectacular. A huge shout out to our son, Ben, for all of his recommendations and connections. It definitely would not have been such a great visit if we had tried to do this totally on our own.
So, to catch everybody up, here's what our last few days have been like:
Saturday:
We spent the morning at the Old Biscuit Mill, a huge craft and gourmet food market in Cape Town that is a hugely popular destination for both locals and tourists on Saturday mornings. It puts Fanueil Hall and any other place we've been to shame, and we escaped with only 1 purchase (a Springbok pocketbook for Melanie), so I considered the visit a great success!
Next it was off for an afternoon at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. Though the weather could have been nicer, the plantings and vistas were beautiful, and we certainly are more educated than we were about some of the native flora and fauna.
Sunday was a very cool day - though one of the hardest to capture in pictures. We went with Ben's old UCT roommate Moses, his friend Charles, and 7 of their closest Danish and Norwegian female friends to a place called Mzoli's out in one of the townships. Its an open air restaurant with great music and a very cool vibe. You go in, order a huge platter of grilled meats and then sit around eating and drinking for the entire day. While the restaurant is in an incredibly poverty-stricken shanty town, the people couldn't be happier or friendlier.
We topped off the day with a luxury snack that was new to us:
We'll try to remember to bring some bottles of monkey gland sauce home for your gourmet chefs to use in your favorite family recipes!
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