This is it!!

Last day in Cape Town and South Africa!! This is the craziest. We woke up early and went to Jooste to say our last goodbyes to Estelle. We brought her chocolates and talked for a while, and it was so nice. I’m going to miss her; she was the cutest thing ever! Then we headed to the consulate to pick up Miles replacement emergency passport—talk about being last minute. Luckily it was there waiting for him, or that would have been bad news poor Miles. On the way into town, there were some underwear shops that we stopped in and checked out, and then headed to Green Square Market. We had a funny little incident here—one of the sellers were asking us wehre we were from, and Miles said “From far far away”, and he asked again, so Miles stuttered out “Canada” instead of the United States, because the sellers tend to give us US tourists a lot higher prices and give us more trouble. The guy looked at us confused, so Miles said, “you know, Vancouver, Winter Olympics??” it was the funniest thing. He still didn’t know what we were talking about…

After our craft shopping, we drove back to Vangate mall across from our house to pick up some spices that Joan used in the koeksisters that we wanted to make sure we had. We used the internet for a bit, and picked up a few other things we wanted. On the way out, we ran into Colleen—the lady from the beginning of our trip that gave us the historical tour of Cape Town. I was so glad, because I liked her a lot and wanted the opportunity to see her again before we left. It was so great.

We got home and prepared to go out on the town (: lol not that seriously, but we wanted to go to Camps Bay. We went to this cute little restaurant called Paranga for dinner. It was very lovely. For our starter, we had Ostrich with blueberry risotto; Miles told me this was my revenge opportunity lol. Ostrich is quiet yummy though. For dinner I had this amazing fruit and vegetable salad that was amazingly light and healthy tasting. It was so good because firstly I love food like that, and I haven’t had it for like 11 weeks! I’ve only eaten heavy foods, so it was incredible and I felt so good afterwards. It was a nice little goodbye Cape Town dinner. I can’t believe that tomorrow is my last day here. I’m sort of in shock.