Dear Sophia,
Today we just spent the day driving around Cape Town on the double detcker bus. We started at the waterfront where we are staying. We took a picture of the large red statue made of Coca Cola crates. There were also statues of all 4 of the South African Nobel Peace Prize winners. In the waterfront area there are tons of shops, resturants and hotels, like in Baltimore, but it is also a working area. We saw large ships being repaired and unloaded and there were many grain silos and warehouses. There was also an aquarium but we did not go to it. There are tons of old VWs in Cape Town, especially rabbits and bugs. There is an election going on so the posters were everywhere but unlike in the US there were no ads on television.
We stopped at several museums on museum row and around town. The museums here only cost about $3 to go to. At the South African museum we saw rock paintings that were many thousand years old. Again, there were lots of school groups on field trips. We went to the flower gardens and the District 6 museum that told the story about an area of town that people were forced out of during apartheid. We also stopped and Desmond Tutu's church and saw an exhibition about people of all races fighting together to end apartheid.
We also did a lot of shopping. We got the best deals in the Greenmarket in the center of the city. We saw lots of unique items in the Red and Blue sheds in the water front area. Finally we went to a mall and Dad took a picture with a huge Lindt chocolate bunny. We talked about ending our time in Cape Town by riding the Ferris wheel but I was too chicken.
Tomorrow we start safari so I won't post for a few days.
Love,
Mom
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