On to the next day

On to Thursday. So, same breakfast as before except at 7:30am.
We were supposed to have a Dr. from Cape Town come talk to us but he had some emergencies or something so he didn't get there while we waited for him from 8-9:30. Finally, at 9:30 we left for Boulders which is part of South Africa's equivalent to our National Parks. It is where the Jackass Penguins or African Penguins were located and have no fear I got many o' cute pictures. We were there for about 45 minutes and it was a little over an hour away from Cape Town. After the penguins we continued our drive to Cape Point which was close to 2 and 1/2 hours away from Cape Town. By the way, the penguins looked to me like the ones from Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel in Oahu, Hawaii. I don't know if those of you who stayed at the Roach Motel would remember that though!

Shout out to Tia Elissa:
On the rest of the drive to Cape Point it was a lovely view of the ocean but as we got closer to the Park, babboons were everywhere in the streets. We quickly shut our windows. There are signs everywhere with warnings, especially emphasizing not to feed them...they are a bit different than seagulls at Ocean City. The adult males make very nasty noises and they are attracted to food so we got our fair share of pictures and continued on. The car behind us was a mini cooper convertible with the top down...we didn't stick around to see what happened to them! We have seen several babboons on our drives since that occasion so I guess you weren't lyin'!

Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope were really nice, I have many scenic pictures. We ate sandwiches for lunch out of our vans at the stopping place and continued on back into Cape Town because we had an appointment at UCT (University of Cape Town) to speak with a colleague of our professor who teaches there. His name was Maano but I don't remember his last name. He volunteered his time and gave us a lesson on apartheid geography and how the land is and was used during and post (not much difference). Another worthwhile discussion.

That night we drove to the harbor and had dinner on the top deck at a Thai place. I had spicy cashew chicken and we shared again so I tried a variety of chicken dishes.
We went to the mall again to settle our internet stuff and went back to the hotel again. We had to pack to be ready to leave the next day so we did that and wrote a paper that was due the next morning for our first class session.

END DAY 2