Every day (since 1806) in Cape Town they fire off the Noon Gun, you can head to the top of Signal Hill and watch it go off. We were lucky to have Greg able to give us a ride, it would have been a LONG hike, but we had to wait for him to take some work calls, this meant we arrived at 11:58- Mr. Estramonte, Jim's Dad, would not have approved!
After the blast we got to check out the old fort and look down at the harbor and enjoy the view. Charlie played his favorite game ever with Dad, he climbed on every old cannon and shot Dad. It never got old, I think he could have played it all afternoon!
We then headed for the cable car to the top of Table Mountain. The guidebook said everyone should hike to the top, but perhaps when Charlie is older we will get to the top that way...for this trip the cable car was perfect!
The views from the top were great, we also took a guided walk and had a drink at the nice restaurant at the top. We wished we had eaten there too, but the kids saw a Subway (like America) on the way and they begged to get that for lunch, so we took it to go and ate it at the top. We learned that Subway here is not the same, we are tuna sub fans, but here the mayo is strange so our tuna didn't taste like we were used to...also no Sun Chips!
Another stop that the book recommended was having sundowners at Clifton Beach. We drove along the coast and found the beach, which you walk down through summer homes to get to. The kids had a ball swimming and the sunset was beautiful. We know where it would be cool to have a summer cottage in Cape Town!
The next day (Charlie's actual birthday) we took the big red double decker bus tour all around Cape Town.
Our first stop was the botanical gardens-we saw Giant Protea, the flower of Africa, but they were as big as dinner plates! We also got to go on the new tree canopy walkway, here is Charlie the bird...
We found a good fish place for lunch and were looking for a beach the kids could swim at. We kicked ourselves for not getting off the bus at Camp's Bay, we stayed on for Queen's beach and learned that the Queen must have made someone mad because her beach stunk! It was a one way route and I had disappointed kids but luckily we found this amazing playground, complete with a train and zipline...
Our final morning before we headed home we hit Charly's Bakery which people had told us about, I guess it is pretty famous in SA, it was featured in a tv show here. It was neat to see all the amazing cakes that people were picking up on Sat AM.
We scouted a few more places like the SA museum that we would like to check out on our next trip! Sadly we headed home to school for the girls and had to leave Greg in Cape Town for another week, but we were happy we got to come and see such a great place!
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