We Have Made it Out of the Bush

We are writing to you from Cape Town having finally gotten back on the grid with reliable internet connectivity. We successfully negotiated our way to Pretoriuskop Rest Camp where we stayed in a compound that could accommodate 16. The hippo's kept some of us awake at night and we succesfully braai-ed (pronounced bry) our version of a bbq. From there to Olifants a 7 hour drive where we witnessed our very first dazzle of Zebra. Two days of baboon road blocks, Africa's version of a sig alert on the 405, and then back down to the airport in Nelspruit for our flight to Cape Town. Wow, another international incident when Elaine asked Zan to carry the cooler thru security which just so happened to have a long sharp object not to mention a cork screw. Even in a third world country they don't take kindly to carrying concealed weapons. Howard sang them a song, received marriage proposal #2, and off we flew to Cape Town. Re-entry into civilization took us from Shanty Town near the airport where a 5 x 5 corrugated steel building with no power, water or sewage is considered home to a family of 10; to our digs, which could only be described as over the top by our standards. With views of Table Mount on one balcony and the waterfront on the other, we are surrounded in beauty which helps soften the blow of re-entry into civilization. Spent Monday with the penguins on the way to Cape Point, who knew that you could see penguins and not be cold. We are here in Cape Town till tomorrow evening and then overnite to London. Today we shop and walk and.....???? and come what may we hope that we can stay clear of another international incident, and oh by the way... the men all have their passports, or at least we think so.