Day 13 - December 13, 2008

Day 13

December 13, 2008

We decided to sleep in and take another easy day.   We all sleep in and plan on our agenda.  We are to shop for more souvenirs and the plan is to ship some of our treasures home.  Unfortunately, we are unable to find a UPS Store or something similar.  We are told of PostNet, but we are unable to find it.  So, we head down to the strip of Camps Bay.  We end up buying the more souvenirs and grab lunch.  We eat at Parangas.  We have a nice table on the patio.  I again order the seafood platter.  Rey ordered an ostrich filet and Roger ordered sushi.  Unfortunately for us and fortunate for Parangas, they have shooters menu.  Shooter are only 20 rand, in other words cheap.  We start at the top of the list of the shooters menu and work our way down.  Don't worry, there were only, I think 8 listed.  They were delicious.  Some of the names were "The Banana Blow Job", "The Real Blow Job", and Lemon Drop, to name a few.  As we were taking our shots and enjoying our lunch, a family sat next to us.  It was a mother with her two kids and a friend.  Before you knew it, we were all doing shots together.  The kids were 16 and 18.  There were here in Camps Bay for a holiday.  The daughter is a model and is out here doing some modeling jobs.  There friend is a photographer, who went with the daughter on a casting call and got signed up for his first commercial as a model.  The mother's name is Gillian and she is my cook sister.  Remember on the safari I called it a cookie sister.  Well, I have been informed by Gillian and that we can't say cookie because over here a cookie is a vajayjay : >  YIKES!!! I hope I haven't been asking for cookies lately!  Anyways, we ended up talking and shooting the afternoon away.  It turns out that the mom is on Facebook and we swapped information to be friends on Facebook.  Oh! The reason Gillian is my cook sister is because we are alike.  We have the same humor and she had great energy.  She also is a single mom and she told me I had the making to be an awesome mom (who cares if she was on her 3rd shot!).  After we paid the bill, bid our farewells , and took a picture with Surge, our waiter, we were off back to our house.  We had time to take a quick nap before Rey's friend, Andrew was coming over and joining us for dinner.  

Andrew had set up reservations at a restaurant called Bizerca Bistro, which is in downtown Cape Town.   The restaurant was decorated in whites and blacks.  It had a nouveau look to it.  The specials were hand written on chalkboards that each table had their own to look at.  I ordered a tomato and olive tapenade for a starter, beef fillet for the main course, and creme brule, with chocolate and sorbet for dessert.  Everything was good.  I believe Roger and Rey had the salmon, which wasn't orangish-pink.  It turns out that the salmon was organic and did not have any added color.  Trippy.  After the wonderful meal, Andrew drove us around and gave us a tour of downtown Cape Town.  He took us down Long Street, which had many bars and seemed like the happening place to be.  He also drove us down Auderlee Street, which was decorated with Christmas lights.  We saw Green Market Square, which was deserted, but I guess during the day is similar to a farmer's market.  I think the toll of the shots from earlier and dinner hit all of us, where we all decided to go home and sleep.  ( actually, you know I was ready to rumble, but I was the only willing one ~ funny thing is that when I got home and sat on my bed, I really got sleepy, must be losing my touch)