Cape Town, Escape Town! First Day & Amazing Hotel

We got to tag along on a work trip with Greg, we were lucky to join him from Mon-Sat, then he stayed on for this whole week too. We would have liked to have stayed longer, so much to see!

It was a quick two hour flight, the best part of flying with Charlie was he made me read him the emergency card then he checked for the life jackets under the seat!  (I guess he has a future as a Coast Guard inspector, counting lifejackets)

We arrived and headed for the Penguin Colony at Boulders Beach, about a 45 minute drive from downtown, they were so cute, most people only see them from the boardwalk, but there is also a beach that you can go down on and if you are lucky like us you get to see them in the water!

At one point on the beach Greg thought Charlie was coming up behind him because he heard little feet, he turned around and instead saw it was a little penguin!

It's really neat to see them swimming & riding the waves!

Our first fish & chips in a very long time...Pretoria is not known for seafood!

We stayed at the Table Bay Hotel, right on the beautiful Victoria & Alfred Waterfront (people call it the V&A Waterfront).  The hotel hosts all the big names that come to town, a few examples were Micheal Jackson, Celine Dion, President Obama, and now the Hughes family!  I used to think my little Lake Geneva, WI hotel where I was a pool attendant for one summer was the place...this place blew it away, it is listed as one of the top hotels in the world and I believe it!  Here are the flowers in the lobby when you enter.

The first night the lady turned down our beds in the evening complete with rose petals & candy!  The pool was lovely to lounge by and the weather was warm, (I guess it snowed the week before) here are Kelly & Katie...loving vacation!  

Breakfasts at the hotel were amazing, a million things to choose from and a view from the dining room of Table Mountain and the working harbor!  They also gave us a pass to come for High Tea during our stay.  Here is Katie's dessert course at high tea!

After high tea we went for one of our amazing sunset bike rides, along the ocean! 

The mascot of the hotel is a seal that used to come visiting the workers daily when they were building it.  The logo is on everything and here are the kids at the giant statue of Oscar the Seal.

That was pretty much the view from the breakfast room!

Here was the view from our room, we could see Robben Island out at sea...

I'll do a follow up post with our "SA Bucket List" items we completed...