I posted some photos on Facebook but thought I’d better publish them here for my non-Facebook friends. M and I went to Cape Town which is located at the very southern tip of Africa. It was founded in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company so that the ships would have a place to restock on their way to and from Holland and India. Wine grapes were brought in and after several failed attempts at growing grapes, a winery was finally added. Fast forward almost 400 years and now Cape Town is a very beautiful city located near several successful wine regions that make really awesome wine!

Baby baboon

Cape Town penguin colony

This was yucky

Pay phones are still alive and well in South Africa

View from Table Mountain

View from Table Mountain

Table Mountain cable car

Groot Constantia Rose!

View from Table Mountain

Cape Town in the background

Cape Town along the ocean

Green Market Square

Green Market Square

Township

Pretty fancy for hiking at Cape of Good Hope, huh?

The Cape of Good Hope where the Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean

The Cape

Don’t open the car door!!

Today M and I are in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is working and I am catching up on emails and this blog and will probably go walk around the neighborhood near the hotel while waiting for M to come back. No Thanksgiving dinner for us this year but maybe a nice steak dinner with a nice SA wine.

This trip has so far been pretty amazing. Of course M has seen all the things that have made me excited…she says that it is her goal to make me “more worldly” whatever that means. In any case, I’ve seen a lot of Cape Town, been up Table Mountain by cable car, seen incredible poverty in the Townships, been to the Cape of Good Hope and seen “the end of the world”, seen penguins, baboons, beautiful birds, daissies, and ostrich (all in the wild on the same day no less), ate some fabulous meals and visited the Franschhoek wine region where we tasted some amazing wine! The photos I’ve taken of the Cape of Good Hope (and will post later on) cannot replicate what it looks like in real life. It is truly an amazing and awe inspiring sight to see!! On Saturday we are heading to a game park where hopefully we will see elephants, zebras and other wild African animals. I brought my nice camera so hopefully I can take some nice photos to share.

I’ve got a lot to be thankful for today….a loving family, a beautiful loving partner, a goofy dog and cat that I miss too much, friends who are my “other” family, great health, two beautiful places to live, and the opportunity to “become more worldly” and see incredible things. I hope everyone who reads this has a very happy Thanksgiving and know that I love and miss you all.

Now, if I could only find a piece of pumpkin pie my life would be complete….