Hi everybody! I am back today with another cool blog post for you about my fun time here in Cape Town! Since my last blog post, we haven’t done much in Cape Town, but we did do a lot of fun activities here. Once we arrived at the airport, we met Anton and it was so great to see him after all this time! He drove us to our very same apartment as last time and after we got all settled in, we had a nice dinner at home and went to sleep excited to spend another month here in Cape Town, South Africa. A few days later, we had dinner with Anton and his girlfriend, Triya, and they were very nice to us. It was a fun dinner at a restaurant that was witch-themed, for some reason. We didn’t do much aside from that, mostly due to the large amounts of homework we had, but we went to see the new Aladdin movie, and it was the worst film we saw this year. It was just so cliche and filled with too many dances. To me, it was disgraceful to the original and to everyone watching the movie. We also went to the farmer’s market where we bought Bill tongue, which is a really tasty kind of meat, and we also explored a few thrift stores where Ella got an ancient piggy bank! A couple of days later, we saw the new horror film called Brightburn, which was good but a little bit disappointing. For dinner that night, we ate at a delicious steak restaurant and I got the ribeye, which was very delicious. A few days after that(Everything happens in the span of days here), we went to the high school graduation of our friend Mia, the daughter of Garreth and Francesca, who we visited the last time we were here. We went to the same school we toured last time and although we didn’t stay at the ceremony for too long, it was fun to hang out with everyone and the next day, we climbed the Devil’s Peak mountain with Garreth, Francesca, and their relatives named Stuart and Vanessa. Surprisingly, there was one unexpected guest when we climbed the mountain: Garreth’s and Franchesca’s dog Luigi! He was still as energetic as the last time we saw him, but he kept zipping back and forth on the trail and nearly made me fall a couple of times. Once we got to the top of the mountain, we had to walk the whole trail back down and everyone kept getting poked by these green plants that were everywhere. We went to the farmer’s market after that and we met Lucia, the other daughter of Garreth and Francesca, and their other friend named Vanessa. After eating our breakfast with them, Garreth took me on his Vespa, which is a cool type of motorcycle, and we raced the other back to the apartment! It was very fun and I have had an awesome time here so far.
A few days after that, we went to their house and Garret showed us a very funny trick with Luigi at dinner time. He threw a ball out the window and then Luigi started barking rapidly and ran all the way downstairs and out the doggy door! He also kept chasing his tail for the rest of the night and always had to be the center of attention, which was what makes him a very energetic little puppy! With Vanessa, who was also at the dinner, we played a game of Train, where you create a domino trail based on the number of dots. Ella won all 3 rounds purely out of luck and I do not forgive her for that. A few days later, our aunt Ronit from Israel came over to visit us and we had an awesome time together! We took her to see the penguins at the penguin beach and she was absolutely in love with them! We even saw a few Marvins(rock dassies) on the beach and they were as cute as always. After that, we climbed up the mountain on the tip of the cape of Cape Town and it was very fun. We also went to the same beach we rolled down last time and it was very fun. We took a cable car up and down Table Mountain after that and Garret met us for dinner that night! It is great fun to be here!
The next day, we went to the farmer’s market with Ronit and we had a nice Billtong breakfast. After that, we went shopping at the mall where there was a cool statue of Nelson Mandela made out of beads. At dinner, we met a guy called Roo Él who’s birthday was today. He had a very interesting near-death encounter when he almost died when diagnosed with a deadly disease. He described that once he had an out-of-body experience and that it was surreal, like when you lift yourself above a treadmill while it’s still going. It was actually pretty cool to talk to a complete stranger and then invite them over to have dinner with us. It shows how similar people are and how awesome their life stories are. Today wasn’t very interesting, but it was fun nonetheless.
The next day was bustling with activity. We first started off the day by going to a lot of the places we went by the first time we came to South Africa. We went to the duck run first and Ronit was absolutely in love when the ducks started to waddle across the plain. They were so cute and funny looking. After that, we went to the winery with the cool rocks that make a sound when you place your hand over it. Apparently, the sound has to do something with magma, but it was very interesting. We then stopped to have lunch and I even got to practice golfing! It was actually a lot more fun than I thought and I even hit the cork 80% of the time! Ella and Ronit were also very good and we even visited Fairview, where all the goats were. Ella and the rest of the gang tried cheese, but I didn’t because I’m not a cheese fan. After that, we called it a day and we had a lot of fun exploring all of South Africa.
Our final day was also very interesting because we first took Ronit to the awesome steampunk restaurant where we ate at the last time we were here. The restaurant was very cool and the food there, which was french toast, was very tasty. After that, we drove to the township where we did bike tours last time and we rejoined with our former guide called Mike. He took us on bikes around the area where we were at and it was fun to see some of the stuff like the church and the jailhouse where women used to be locked up. At the art center, we even got to play the drums and a student group watched us, which was very pressuring. We also had lunch at the same restaurant as last time and this time the son of the person who owns the restaurant told us the story of the restaurant, even though it was less interesting than last time. After that exciting day, we went back home and prepared for our journey tomorrow.
