Pictures! ... the link

Hey Folks,

I have finally edited the over 1600 photos to within a little over 900! My apologies for the late post, but I wanted to add captions to the pictures since I stopped posting. To view, just click the link below. Enjoy and take your time :)

Kelly's Photos

The Local Club - Zar

South Africa does have a nightlife and the Cape Royale Luxury Hotel & Spa makes it easy for you to go out. I hit up Zar, the club within the hotel, after eating my delicious goat meal (see previous post). The club was nice, had great service and a calm hip hop atmosphere... if that's possible, lol.

Unexpected Turn of Events

Well folks, as you may have noticed I stopped writing on my blog completely after 8/26/11. The reason: I was robbed. No worries though, only my material items were stolen from our condo/hotel room, although deeply cherished. I am still elated to have been able to take such a trip, and I hope to return to South Africa and still would like to stay in the lovely hotel and residence regardless of the incident. I will not condemn the whole place for a couple of people's behavior. I am happy to say that the security and local police department were spectacular in keeping me calm and informed about the process. Although my items have yet to be returned to me, I feel blessed to have taken the trip and had the experience. We cannot fret over material things.

I am going to continue to write about my trip experiences, I just had to take some time to get that out. Picture album link to come soon as well.

Cheers,
Kelly

It's That Time... Goat Time!

I am at El Burro about to try goat in South Africa. Yall know I gotta have my goat. My reservation was for 6:30p, but little did I know, the goat doesn't start tiIl 7pm... Special! Anyway, I decided to order a mojito and the Calamares a La Sarten. I will let you know how it goes.
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El Burro was Great! The goat was perfectly done and marinated. The accompanying rice and beans were seasoned to perfection and complemented the goat in the makeshift tacos. They also gave me five (5) sauces to spice up the experience.

Afterward I stopped by the Gelato Mania place for two scoops of sweet goodness. I got Aunt Fran two scoops as well. I had the Turkish Delight with Vanilla and Aunt Fran had Ferrero Rocher with Vanilla as well. Perfect finish after a wonderful dinner.

I am in Hogwartz for sure!

Tonight is the first official concert. We are at the South African College School and performing a wonderful lineup, which will include the San Peoples "The Click Song". The San or Bushmen are the folks you saw in "The God's Must Be Crazy." And "The Click Song" is actually called Qongqothwane and was sung by the famous Miriam Makeba.
Today, in order to get us prepared, we visited the !Khwa ttu (the ! refers to the click sound). The !Khwa ttu is where we participated in a guided tour, understood the use for the Fynbos plant, and visited a traditional San village. After our excursion we ate a meal of Eland (the local big animal)Babooti, rice, and a crispy tortilla like thing... Delicious! (Pictures to come later).
So now we are in the auditorium of the school and it reminds me of Hogwartz because of the four houses shown in the stain glass windows of the hall. And the have a wicked tiled floor in the foyer that I can run-n-slide all the way across. (Video of that to come). Well ttyl for now, gotta go sell CD's.
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Pictures from the Winelands

The art here was vivid and real!

wild stool in the purchasing area

Dumbo! in the garden

Jump-Roping Girl

Planking?, lol

Iron bathroom

Welcoming us to the tasting room

Mohawk Man

These are my own names of course.

Visiting the Winelands today

Today we are starting out in Stellenbosch wine country. Our first winery is Le Roux where I tasted and bought La Chanson, South Africa's only red sparkling wine. It had a delicious aroma and flavor of strawberry and plum. Wine will definitely be coming home with me. On to the next winery...
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