Winelands

Today we drove out to see the wine lands. Cape Town is supposed to be quite famous for their amazingly scenic vineyards and their award winning wines. We were told it is a must-see when visiting Cape Town. The main wine lands area is called Stellenbosch, with a few little towns surrounding it. The first stop we made was to a winery called J.C. Le Roux. We have all fallen quite in love with their exquisite champagne; a South African exclusive, so we were really excited to find out that there was an actual vineyard here for us to go to. The tasting was very nice, and we found a sparkling rosé that we really liked as well. The vineyard was so chic and hip; it was so much fun to come here. There was a demonstration while we were here that was entertaining as well—one of the men cut the top of the bottle of champagne off with a huge sword! It was my favorite spot out of the whole day. The next stop was a place called Waterford. We had heard about their wine and chocolate tasting, as well as their beautiful Mediterranean-esk feel. When we drove in, we all gasped at how stunning it was. It was extremely beautiful and ornate and just stunning; the building, the vineyard and the land around it—everything! I wasn’t particularly fond of this place in terms of wine, but it was nice. The only thing that went wrong was that I got my first bee-sting/bite here! It was on my leg, and it hurt really bad! I never knew how much it stung lol. My leg swelled up quite a bit around the bite or sting, whatever it was, and it hurt for quite a while. Not so fun.

We headed into one of the smaller towns surrounding Stellenbosch called Franschhoek, a coined French town. It was really cute and quaint. We tried to visit a winery called La Petite Ferme that was recommended to us, but tastings were already closed, so we went across the street to a place called Cabriere. This was definitely not my cup of tea; I didn’t like this place at all. Lauren and Miles ended on a good note, but I was glad to leave. We were all a little hungry at this point, and decided to grab something to eat. We found a cute little place called Café Bicccs that we had lunch at. It was quite good, and we were satisfied. We drove home, and tried to decide what to do for the rest of the evening; it was still pretty early. We wanted to do something low key, and I had the idea of a movie. Movies are really cheap for us to see here, and I haven’t seen a movie in 8 weeks, so it sounded good to me. Everyone else agreed, so Miles and I went to the internet café to see what was playing.

Date Night was the only thing that looked good, so we all went to movie theatre at the casino to watch it. We brought Megan, Joan’s niece along with us, and it was so nice to see a movie and feel ‘normal’ and at home. It kind of reminded me of how much I miss home though, so I went to sleep a little sad about that, but it was okay. I only have two weeks left, and I have no choice but to make it, so I guess I will!