July 14 –
The boat harbor cruise is finished and there's still day light left…so…what else can we go see?
There is an aquarium we can go see (it's close to closing time but we can still squeeze in a quick visit) to the:
a couple of goof balls clowning around with the clown fish:
And then of course there are my goonie girls:
What's up with the glass that makes the clown fish so interested in hovering along the top of it???
More silly kiddos…looky, looky- they're stuck in a fish tank!
We passed by many of the exhibits at a rapid pace as the Predator Exhibit was what really wanted to see….SHARKS!
Yikes! The sharks in the tank are called ragged-tooth sharks. I was kind of hoping (even if I'm paranoid about them) to see a great white but luckily there weren't any (or is unfortunately?). These look scary enough as it is!
WOW! Loved the aquarium. It was nice to just browse through all the exhibits at our own pace and enjoy all the fish. We could have stayed there for HOURS but we're getting hungry!
It's time for dinner and all of us are ready for food (it's been a long, full and very awesome day). Where to go eat?
We're looking fro a restaurant along the V&A Waterfront (that's where we caught the harbor boat cruise). I'm positive we'll find something good to eat among the dozens of restaurants lining the walkway.
I want to eat something that you can only get in South Africa…here's a restaurant called Karibu that states it has lots of South African dishes. Yes! Let's try it!
Out door seating…with a beautiful view of Table Mountain in the background.
Here we're trying to decide what dishes to order from the vast menu. Sadly I'm not that hungry as I'd love to try one of everything. Everything on the menu sounds good to me right now.
Girls with Table Mountain
Debbie is testing/tasting a glass of SA wine. Mmmmmmmm…..nice!
I'm not sure if you can read the text below but it's a lexicon of many of the South African dishes (it explains what the dishes are in more or less plain English):
After dinner I decided that we should order many nearly all of the desserts to try. Oh man. I can't decide which one is my favorite! Bummer…I've forgotten the names of most of these (although I do remember Debbie telling me I have the recipe for one of these in the cookbook she gave me….hmmmm…I think I'm going to go look for it RIGHT NOW).
It's getting dark and cool (it's winter here…I know it doesn't LOOK like winter but it is). That doesn't stop from the girls from smiling (I think they're smiling because they just got to eat all kinds of desserts without being asked to eat a huge dinner first. ;-)
While we were eating our fabulous dinner there was a group of men singing South African a capella music for us diners. I enjoyed it so much we bought their CD!