♫ Here's the story of a lovely family who went on a very lovely trip!
All of them wanted to see a lion ... so tour South Africa they did! ♪
What's up kids?
We are back from the epic Armstrong Tour o' South Africa, 2012. In mid-February, my in-laws came for a 3-week visit -- and we had a blast!
We did it all, from cosmopolitan Cape Town to the forests of Knysna to our safari at Kruger National Park. AH-MAZING.
But it was exhausting! We covered over 4,500 kilometers (like 2,800 miles), carried 4 cameras and took over 6,000 photos!
So it's taken quite a while to sort through it -- I'm still not done, but it's getting there. I'm gonna try and condense it down so I don't overwhelm y'all.
The first day we went on a little walking tour of our 'hood -- Cape Town's City Centre. And just in that first day we saw: Long Street, Adderley Street, Company Gardens, St. George's Cathedral, The Crypt Memory and Witness Centre (an apartheid museum), Greenmarket Square, St. George's Mall and The Slave Lodge:
That night we went to one of our favorite restaurants, Toni's. It is a Portuguese-Mozambican place -- the decor is beautiful but it's totally unpretentious and of course the food is absolutely delicious:
Best of all, that day was my mother-in-law's birthday!
It was SO wonderful to be able to celebrate with her! After missing Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year's ... it was really nice to celebrate an important day with family.
The next day was gorgeous! So we decided to ...
Go up Table Mountain!
And to round out the day, we went to the District 6 Museum, which I've covered before. My in-laws are very progressive, historically-curious folks, so they found it fascinating.
We were lucky enough to get a tour by a former resident of District 6, Noor Ebrahim:
He showed us photos of his family hanging on the walls and told us stories of life there and what it was like to have your family uprooted based simply on the color of your skin. Mr. Ebrahim has also published a book of short stories called "Noor's Story: My Life in District Six".
If you are looking for a way to teach young people about apartheid, his book might fit the bill. The stories are very short, simple tales of his childhood and his large family's life in District 6 and would be an excellent thing to share with young kids.
So after 2 jam-packed days, we were off the next morning for Johannesburg, the Cradle of Humankind and Kruger National Park! Stay tuned ...
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