Days 14 and 15

Day 14: Table Mountain.

Just hanging around above Camps Bay.

 Day 14 was spent on Table Mountain. We all made our separate ways to the top: me in the cable car, mum hiking and Cheryl rock climbing (and reaching the top to a group of rather surprised tourists as she pulled herself over the wrong side of the wall!). We then got to abseil down again which was nerve wrecking but an awful lot of fun. At one point we had to go from walking down the cliff face, to jumping off and dangling in mid air to lower ourselves the last bit, it was hard working out how to step off the overhang without accidentally smacking your face into the rock, but after that it was great!

The afternoon we just spent chilling because we'd been up since 5am and were tired. I went to go talk to Manan - the guy who runs the drumming on Long Market Street, Mum had a look round some of the shops on Long Street and Cheryl took a nap. In the evening, Cheryl met up with her climbing friends to say goodbye and me and Mum went to Mama Africa, then Durbanville because I have to take 2 full size djembe's home and won't have room for all my clothes, Mum and Cheryl are taking my patchwork coat, violin and as many jumpers as they can fit.

Day 15: Red Bus Tour

Coffee in bed!

Day 15 is the last day and we all had a lie in. Actually, that's not true...Cheryl was supposed to go climbing on Table Mountain again so she was up at 7am so I was too because we were sharing a room. However a Cape Doctor blew in (strong wind - I can't even think of wind of a similar strength in England) and her climb got called off. We both went up to Mum's room, had a coffee and decided what to do that day. We spent the morning on Long Street and Greenmarket Square getting souvenirs for them and went for a red bus tour in the afternoon. We walked along the promenade at sea point and had lunch at the waterfront, we wanted to go up signal hill for the view but there was a bush fire on Lions Head so we got evacuated off. Instead we came back to Durbanville to put all the photo's on my laptop as back up before Mum and Cheryl left for the airport. Overall it's been a fantastic holiday!

Lunch was had at the same place we had our first coffee, only this time you can't see Table Mountain for all the clouds!