Holidays in South Africa

We've taken a couple of weeks of holidays here in Holiday season. My parents were here for two weeks. For one week they visited us in Choma while we went about our work; they were able to spend some time at Chodort and visit some village schools with Michelle. Then we spent a week in Livingstone together, with lots of it in the pool to beat the heat! We also visited the Falls and enjoyed a self-driven safari in Mosi-au-Tunya park.

We both flew out of Lusaka airport on the same morning; Mom and Dad went home via Amsterdam and we went to Cape Town, South Africa. We have regional meetings in Durban next week, so we took the opportunity to see the south coast of Africa. There's been a bit of culture shock (in a pleasant way) as we play the part of tourists. We've enjoyed a ferris wheel ride, McDonald's, shopping, the Aquarium, penguins on the beach, and Table Mountain. See picture of me with some feathery friends. The area is cool enough for these penguins to thrive!

Today we drove up to Table Mountain and took the cable car to the top. We enjoyed the view, etc, but I was mostly thinking about my hike down! Michelle took the kids for lunch and then the cable car down, while I saved ten bucks by walking down the steep trail. It took one and a quarter hours. My legs felt a little shaky the whole time--maybe because I didn't have lunch?--but they did their job and it was a beautiful place to get some exercise!