Cape Town for Amy's Baby Shower - 21 January 2024

 

Amy's Baby Shower at Suikerbossie 

Bev, Amy, Carolyn, Dominique and all of the lovely ladies who created an awesome occasion for Amy's baby shower, thank you from all of us attendees.

We had a ball, and we started with a questionnaire on Amy and Andrew's thoughts on various topics, one that stood out was "Who's talent will Holly inherit" -  Hands down, everyone said Amy. "Who will give Holly her first drink" On this one Andrew got every vote.

With Alex having baked the most gorgeous cupcakes and Suikerbossie catering, everyone ate and drank their fill.

No one was allowed to mention the word baby in the peg game as they would lose their clothes peg with the person with the most pegs winning.

The fun continued with the three-stage race, each table put forward a team of two people, the husband, clueless and blindfolded and the wife with a basketball strapped to their tummy. The first stage was where the blindfolded dad had to put on a nappy. The second stage was to eat the Nutella out of a nappy. the lucky parent had Nutella with marshmallows and the unlucky found pickles in the Nutella and had to stomach the concoction to proceed to the final step - singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with a mouth full of large marshmallows.

The final game was bingo where different baby requirements replaced the numbers. As Amy opened presents, the bingo blocks were ticked off.

What an awesome occasion.

Learning to fly a drone at AutonoSky, Cape Town 15th - 19th January 2024

 

Learning to fly a drone properly has been on my radar for a while. I have had the Bolt which I could only fly indoors (it is too light to fly in any breeze) and had great fun flying in the lounge, then Darren brought home the DJI Mavic Pro and the idea of taking pictures and videos from the sky became a reality. Being bad at 'just doing it' which Darren highly recommends, taking advantage of the trip to Cape Town for Amy's baby shower, I decided to learn how to fly it properly.

I love photographs and I love St Francis Bay Scenery, having taken aerial pictures of St Francis from the Baron 58 and the Twin Comanche, the idea of doing so again has become a reality. This time using the DJI Mavic Pro. 

Kindly AutonoSky and Daniel in particular assisted in sending the theory requirements beforehand and I was able to do the required subjects and some flight training in a week. I have not yet finished the practical skills, but hope to come back to Cape Town on the 8th of February for Terrance's birthday and spend some time completing the required training and skills test.

Last day of our timeshare holiday at the Peninsula - 7th December 2023

Uber to Andrew and Amy's house and went with Amy for Holly's scan nearly 23 weeks, beautiful and perfect Holly.

Drove with Amy to go and fetch the prawns for Christmas and then back to the Peninsula where we met Petra and Amy left is to go and do her second last gig.

Petra took us for lunch at Kleinkys deli and we really enjoyed the food, smashed avo on toast, salmon and scrambled egg, chicken mayo bagel.

After lots of catching up, we came back to the hotel. Petra drove back to Summerset West and Carlos and I went for the last walk on the promenade.

Great example of the so called devils peak with the smoke which supposedly comes from the folk-tale about a Dutch man called Jan van Hunks, a prodigious pipe smoker who lived at the foot of the mountain circa 1700. He was forced by his wife to leave the house whenever he smoked his pipe. One day, while smoking on the slopes of the peak, he met a mysterious stranger who also smoked. They each bragged of how much they smoked and so they fell into a pipe-smoking contest. The stranger turned out to be the devil and Van Hunks eventually won the contest, but not before the smoke that they had made had covered the mountain.

The tabletop covering table mountain.

Cape Town waterfront, harbour cruise and a drive around the Peninsula - 6th December 2023

Having coffee waiting for the harbour cruise.

We have been blessed with beautiful weather. After the cruise, we got back on the bus and toured the Peninsula, all the way back to our hotel.

Amy visited and we had tea and then went for a swim after which we walked to Mr Chan for dinner. We had the set menu that includes, fried rice, prawns, pork, chicken, duck and sesame prawn toast with crab and sweet corn soup.

The Jewish Museum plus Fish, Chips & Calamari - 5 December 2023

We went to the Jewish Museum and the Holocost, Genecide centre which was the first stop of the blue route in which we exited the red top bus.

The record of the Genecide of the Jewish people is horrific but necessary to assist in the avoiding a repeat of a tragic part of our history. Yet we seem set to do so again, Russia, Ukraine, Palestine, Israel all set to kill or be killed.

The contribution of prominent Jewish individuals portrayed in the Museum highlights their great contribution to South Africa. Barny Barbato, Cecil Rhodes and thousand amore all helped to advance this country to where it is today.

Walking back to the bus stop we saw the tablecloth start to cover table mountain and a beautiful mural. So many sides of buildings now have murals.

Our next stop was Mariners Wharf in Hout Bay where we enjoyed Fish, Calamari and chips with a bottle of wine. Never disappoints and the volume of people (every table was full) certainly shows its popularity and value for money.

After an excellent meal we got back on the bus and returned to the Peninsula. Carlos and I walked our 5 km but mom stayed and watched TV, it was a long but very enjoyable day.

Coimbra with Bertha and Carolyn - 4th December 2023

We went to Coimbra for brunch with Bertha and Carolyn and we drank great coffee and pasteis de nata while catching up.

We then went to the waterfront, and indulged in a  a Macha Frappuccino and other signature coffee drinks at Starbucks.

Returned to my beautiful bukkie with its brand new cover.

Caramba Restaurant - 03 December 2023

The day started with a 5km walk along the promenade with Carlos. We then drove to Caramba Restaurant and had  great traditional Portuguese food. Bacalhau and espetada, steak egg and chips, figados all Soooo good!!

Ending in a stunning evening!!