I never blogged my trip to South Africa- so here it is. The extremely short version since people only like pictures these days.

This part of the trip consisted of:

1. Landing in Cape Town after 36 sleepless hours of flying solo… next to a large man who decided we share my seat. It wasn’t the smoothest of international travel, so I was thankful to finally land in Cape Town, South Africa after not seeing my hubs for 9 weeks. His company paid for a night in a beautiful hotel which we will never have the luxury of duplicating again in our lives. So we pretty much just took turns soaking in the huge jacuzzi in the bath room and pretending we weren’t poor all night. And then contemplated drinking my first hotel bottle of water to further financially punish his company for keeping him away for so long.

Cape Town is considered the Paris of South Africa: the Mother City. Full of vibrant personality and beautiful landscapes. We went to a few of the restaurants- realizing that no one could really tell us what South African cuisine was. We gathered that it pretty just means an American diet with some ostrich thrown in. I really loved the Dutch inspired homes with such clean, simple presence.

2. We drove to Simon’s Town where some extremely generous American friends let us stay in their beautiful home there. On the way, we stopped at the beautiful Table Top Mountain National Park right as the sun set- splitting the sunlight across the mountains in a way I will never forget. The home we stayed in had a view of the ocean with the mountains behind it- and for a few days we would just open the windows and enjoy the simple things in life: a good book, a walk on the beach, long naps, and light meals of local cheese and wine.

3. Boulder’s Bay- where I got to play with penguins on the beach and it was pretty much the best day of my life.

4. Cape Point- a part of Table Top Mountain National Park that juts out into the ocean. We hiked to the top and witnessed some stunning views and relatively deserted beaches.

5. Travelled a little farther down the Garden Route and made our way to Franschhoek for horse back riding and wine tour where we learned about adult things like tannins and what good brandy is supposed to taste like.

* Part 2 coming soon. 

Here is a video of our trip. As you know, I’m a videographer so I almost didn’t show this to the public because of how unprofessional it is, but take it as just what it is: two crazy kids slinging a camera around to a few of our daily adventures. Enjoy!

XO, K.