Cape of Good Hope

After going to the top of Cape Point, we decided to drive over to Cape of Good Hope. It was just as beautiful.

I loved watching the waves crash into the rocks.

The Cape of Good Hope.

More splashes!

You can tell how windy it was with this wave.

This was on our drive back home. This beach was gorgeous!

When we got back to the hotel we saw these people walking back and forth with these bright umbrellas. Looking around more and we found out that they were filming something!!

The actors just kept walking back and forth across the crosswalk. Also the water truck kept watering down the sidewalk and road behind them, since it was a pretty sunny day. :) It was pretty cool to watch, and a little boring too. ;) Another cool thing, those big thick white lines on the crosswalk...not really there. They put them down just for this filming!

Cape Point

The day after we arrived in Cape Town, we decided to take a road trip down to Cape Point. It's ONE of the most southern parts of Africa. I'm pretty positive I could see Antarctica....just kidding!!! :) But Cape Point is where the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean meet. It was GORGEOUS there! Here are some of our pictures from that day.

Driving down to Cape Point.

Once we were in the Park area we had an ostrich out in the middle of the road!!! There were a lot of ostriches around.

At the bottom of Cape Point. Beautiful, huh?

See that lighthouse up there?? Yeah, me neither, but it's there and that's where we were headed! You could either walk up there, or right a gondola type thing.

We chose the gondola. :)

Up at the lighthouse.

They had a post right in the middle of the area in front of the lighthouse and New York was on there! So we HAD to take a picture. New York is our next post, can you believe it's 12,541 KM away?!?!

Also, you can't tell in this picture but it was SOOOO WINDY up there. I had to lean forward to try to get the pictures I took so I wouldn't be blown back. Spencer was actually really scared to do this because he was afraid his flip-flops would be swept away or that he would!

At the top looking down. You see that road coming along the hill, that first part where it gets big is where we were parked. umm...yeah it was a long way up!

A little private beach near Cape Point.

The meeting place of the two oceans.

Sorry the guys head is in the way, but sometimes you need some perspective about how big and far away things are, he was my perspective. And the white caps out there...no idea what they were?? Perhaps the meeting spot?

What a beautiful world we live in.

Once we had fun up at the lighthouse looking around and were tired of being pushed by the wind we went down to the gift shop and we found this beauty!

I had to take a picture for my father-in-law Todd, he loves these boat models. Wish we could have gotten it for you Todd, but there was no way we were going to get that thing back to the States all in one piece!!

Cape Town Aquarium

One of the cloudy days while in Cape Town we decided to go to the Aquarium that was nearby. It was pretty great!

Spencer with all the Nemo's!!!

He loved being able to be in the middle of them all.

Big jellyfish.

Spider Crab, this photo makes it look really scary, but let's face it they are!

Our Spencer penguin.

We were able to watch them feed the penguins that were there.

Then the penguins went for a swim. They had an observation deck above the water, and below the water.

They started jumping out of the water! It was crazy how fast penguins can swim.

I see you penguin.

They are pretty cute animals.

The COOLEST thing ever! So you know how aquariums have huge walls of glass so you can watch all the fish swim around. Well this is that, but it was cloudy like water would normally be, and it had a small current. So the plants would sway back and forth, and it felt like you were actually in there with the fish.

Spencer underwater?

SHARK!

Watch out Spencer!!!!

A big school of fish.

Divers who were getting into the water to swim with the sharks and other fish. It was fun watching the one professional one and the other three who were doing it for the first time, especially when a shark would swim close by.

The aquarium was awesome as you can tell, and a bit different than other aquariums we have been to, just because of the different location.

Easter Weekend

Again I need to interrupt the vacation posts with an Easter post!!

This Easter weekend both of the boys had a four day weekend, so we filled it with family fun and relaxing with friends. Friday we decided to get the Easter eggs dyed.

As you can see, dying Easter eggs takes quite a bit of concentration.

Blurry picture of all three of us, sorry.

Tyler proud of his Easter eggs!

Tyler's finished Easter eggs.

Becca's finished Easter eggs

Spencer and his finished Easter eggs.

Saturday our friends were going to a lake nearby and having a BBQ, they invited us and we of course said YES! We had about 6 families come and play. It was a lot of fun with some VERY yummy food.

Tyler tried to teach Spencer how to skip rocks.

The sunset.

There was an owl in the tree, but all I could get was his eyes...kinda scary!!!

This was Spencer that night after we got home...what do you think? Worn out much? He was holding those movies so he could fall asleep to them, didn't quite make it.

Then Sunday morning came and Spencer found his Easter basket, but of course the first thing he picks up is his GIANT chocolate Easter bunny!!!

Found the rest of the basket.

Searching thru the loot.

All of our Easter candy and fun we got from the Easter bunny. I'd say it was quite a successful Easter.

We then went to church and then came home to watch a video about the real meaning of Easter. I was impressed that Spencer knew most of the story (we had been trying to teach him a little day by day this past week). Monday is a day for golfing, homework, laundry and going over to another friends house for dinner. What a fantastic Easter weekend!!!