Sunday, October 4, 2009

Hello Normal!

Normalcy begins tomorrow as we wrap up another school holiday!
We spent our last day in Cape Town visiting the Aquarium. Kids had a ball, we were there for a very long time. It's funny how at all ages something like that can be awesome. Claire loved seeing "Nemo", an Octopus, and would sit forever just checking out the different fish. They also had an interactive area, which Hunter loved along with a huge kiddie area. Claire made crafts and watched a show, while Taylor could not get enough of all of the scientific and factual stuff! Hunter was somewhere in between.
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Claire going from one exhibit to the next, artwork in hand...

Hunter in "Nemo" tank...

Taylor pointing out large Sting Ray....

After the aquarium, of course we had to hit the Waterfront mall-we are very deprived of shopping here in Port Elizabeth! There are no TJ Maxx, Targets, but there is some shopping in Cape Town; so we shopped! We found a Build A Bear, not a biggy to you, but we thought Claire would like it. It took her forever to pick which animal, finally a monkey, and then she wanted the Spider man clothes to go with! Oh yeah, my girl picks the ugliest costume for the monkey! Hunter also had fun making a cheetah, dressed in rugby clothes(funny how a year can change someone-we pick the African animals and African sports). Oh well, several dollars or Rands later we take three very exhausted babies back to our hotel to crash!
Claire, out cold!
Next day, monkey is tired of spider man costume(yeah!)
Lovely artwork in room!
On our way home, we stopped off at a winery to visit the cheetah exhibit. We let the boys hang with some baby cheetahs, before being in the car for seven hours! They loved all three cheetahs, one of which was a King Cheetah. There are only 80 to 100 King Cheetahs in the world.





We spent the rest of our holiday at home; we went to the beach, went to the elephant park, saw a movie, participated in a sports camp, went to the driving range and had some sleepovers with friends! Pat and I even had a chance to go out to breakfast, at our favorite restaurant, with some of our South African friends. Afterwards, they took us and showed us some interesting things about PE! My plan is to do a big post on our One Year Anniversary-October 25th, show you what we see everyday!
Our favorite beach(where we can be seen almost every Sunday!)...
Elephant park...
Taylor doing what he loves...golf and bossing his brother!

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