I’m going to split my favourite photos from our Cape Town trip into a few posts… because I can’t cut them down anymore LOL!

We were in the Cape for 3 nights.  We spent the first night at the Southern Sun Waterfront (which was a small room for 4 people and fabulous for one night, but thankfully not for longer or else the kids would have driven us stir crazy), then went to my aunt and uncle in Somerset West for the second night, and then my other aunt and uncle in Hermanus for the third night.  It was rushed, and a little mad… but we had fun and got to see a LOT! It’s just a pity we weren’t there for longer, and couldn’t organise a tweetup… I would have loved to have met some tweeps from Cape Town.

The plan was to do some sightseeing with the boys on the Saturday afternoon, but due to bad weather, Kulula delayed the flight so by the time we’d checked into the hotel, it was dark.  We went to the Waterfront for a bit to eat, and the kids were completely enamoured by the Wheel of Excellence and threw HUGE tantrums when we decided not to go on it then, but wait for morning.

So as a result, we had to traipse back to the Waterfront in the morning… and they LOVED the wheel… it was worth the wait.

… and then we went on our way

I’m sitting at the Spur right now at the Waterfront in Cape Town, waiting for our food to arrive, and started missing my blog. I know I should just give it a proper break, but you know me

Just took an awesome photo of the Ferris Wheel and wanted to share it here too.

I love visiting this city

As you may have guessed by this post the studio is closed for a few days, so I’ll return all calls on Tuesday night when we get home

Posted on my iPhone and photo taken using Instagram on my iPhone

I’ve been in Cape Town over the last 2 days doing presentations and a portrait shoot. Yesterday evening, I just made it up Signal Hill and to Kloof Rd before the sun set and managed to get a few shots of this beautiful city.  Even though I’ve very glad to be home; I wish I’d been there longer and had some me-time during daylight hours to capture more of it’s beauty.

Robben Island as seen from Signal Hill

Cape Town CBD at dusk from the Signal Hill road

Table Mountain

The cable car station on Table Mountain and the start of the Twelve Apostles

The view of the sunset from Kloof Road

Well, I got it home Yes, you can call me mad I just hope that’ll it’ll survive the frost in Jo’burg.
I got the strangest looks and comments, but on the whole it went quite well. The guy at the check-in counter wasn’t quite sure, so the supervisor got called… first hurdle accomplished! Then the security men tried to put it side-ways on the conveyeor belt, lol, but then finally agreed to let it go through where the humans walk . They were worried something was hidden in the pot.

The Cape Town terminal was a nightmare! So many planes were delayed so we ended up sitting on the floor around my tree. We must’ve looked so funny sitting there. These photos were taken while we were waiting for the plane.

On the bus we had to catch to the plane, a couple from the US actually asked me about it, and one other guy just said “I’m not going to comment… my wife takes books to rugby matches”. Hee hee!

Then when I got on the plane, I was given an aisle seat. When the guy sitting next to me got to the seat he said “Now, that’s a nice welcome, a flower on my seat!”. So between me clutching my tree between my legs and the lady at the window, who kept getting up to see her son at the back of the plane, he had an interesting flight. He was fascinating too… he’s an electrical engineer working on a ore track into Saldahna. And as for the lady, wow what a story. Her son was being flown back to Jo’burg to go to a rehabilitation hospital (on a bed with a paramedic for company). He had an accident while cycling the Argus Cycle race, and he was on a ventilator for 2 weeks and has only just managed to start walking again. But for someone who’d had such a bad head injury, I think his recovery has been quite amazing so far. I hope he recovers fully.

So, all in all, it was a pretty eventful and interesting flight home. I hope the tree will be happy in my garden.