Easter and a visitor

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We had a lovely Easter in Cape Town with Fiona White's family. On Saturday we went to a mall, where I went a lot during my exchange year. It has expanded a great deal and Martin and I realized how expensive Cape Town is compared to George. This is really a metropolis. In the afternoon Martin went to town to pick up a college from the army, Ramon, who is backpacking in South Africa at the moment. Later on one of my other friends Katherine, her boyfriend and one of her friends came to Fi's house as well and all of us went to a Caribbean bar called Banana Jam to get some cocktails. Back home we started a fire for a traditional braai and prepared some salads. We had a fun time, talked till late and then chilled out watching "The Pacifier".
On Sunday Fiona, Sue (Fionas mom) and I got up very early to go to church. We listened to a nice Easter sermon, the church was filled with candles before the sun slowly rose. Back home we had some tea and went back to sleep for a while. It was starting to become very hot and Martin and I sat beside the pool, talking to Ant (Fionas dad), who was cleaning it, before I went inside to help Sue with the Easter lunch. Since early in the morning the roast, cooking in the oven, had been filling the house with the lovely scent of rosemary and marinade. Fiona had invited two friends from university for lunch and her parents had invited a couple with a daughter our age. After enjoying a divine appetiser with melba toast, several dips and pâtés, wine and gin and tonic we had a delicious Easter lunch with a lot of laughter.
On Monday Sue and Ant took Martin, Ramon and me to see the penguins in Simonstown and we drove all the way along the cost. For the first time I was able to experience the Chapman's Peak drive. (This road was closed during my exchange year.) It is really amazing! In Hout Bay we went to have the famous fish & chips at a place in the harbour. On our drive we encountered a gang of baboons making a big mess while looking for leftovers in a bin.
At around three that afternoon Martin, Ramon and I headed back home to Mosselbay.
Since then we have been doing a few outings in our area. We went to the Game Reserve in Plettenberg Bay, where we spotted a very young rhino and his mom and lots of bucks, giraffes, zebras… and the turtle with his crocodile buddies. After this wildlife experience we joined most of the tourists visiting this area of South Africa at the Plettenberg Bay Beach. It was a beautiful day and we let the hot sun shine on our skins lying in the sand.
There was a huge music festival going in on in Oudtshoorn for a whole week, which we visited and where we listened to Afrikaans singing bands sitting on straw stacks.