Note: I'm posting this from nearly a week later on so my memory of this day is kind of blurry. We must not have done terribly much. I remember a lot of the conversation had to do with banks and money and general complaining about the way things are run.
There were some fantastic shops in the Red Roof craft market. This was a giant beaded warthog! (Who would want such a thing in their home, I wonder? Apparently this one is Pumba, and there was a "Timone" ie. meerkat and three baby Pumbas that had already been sold. Wild!)
Here are these statues again, great figures of South African history. I feel very warm to this little set of statues. I like their size and pose. They seem real, not too regal or overly displayed. Just there. I think this is a GREAT tribute to some very worthy, yet humble men.
A busker playing a home-made guitar (made from an oil can).
More buskers!
A pirate ship is coming in to dock!
I got in trouble in one of the shops for taking pictures of the merchandise. Oh well. Cute figurines though!
View from the bridge over the canal. A very "African" looking hill, I think. Those buildings in the forefront represent some of the most expensive real estate in all of Africa.
South Africans like to keep their children occupied in strange ways...
Actually, it looked really fun, and I kind of wanted to try it. That's one way to keep the kiddies busy and exercised!
A seal swam under the bridge at one point. Yay wildlife!
And the clocktower, with an EXPENSIVE touristy shopping center behind it.
Also where you go to book trips out to Robben Island, but I'm told it's either not running at the moment, or not worth the trip. Shame that.
*I'm going to sit down with the Bethkes before I leave and have them fill in all the blanks for me. Sometimes I don't catch names, sometimes I'm too afraid to try and spell them or say them myself, so I just leave blanks until then.
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