Last night I had the African Way treatment - a sand scrub, mud wrap, mini-facial and massage that did wonders for curing jet lag. Then we met the early arrivals in the bar and had a lovely dinner at one waterfront.

We did some city exploring today - the hotel's chauffeur (complementary) will take you wherever you want to go. We had him drop us at the Gold of Africa Museum, then went to the Koopmens de Wet house, an 18th/19th century period house/museum, strolled through Greenmarket Square, visited the Groot Kerk (Dutch Reformed church) walked past Parliament and through the Company Gardens to the South Africa National Gallery which currently has a show on Picasso and the influences of African art on his work. We caught a one hour interesting docent led tour and then met the chauffeur to be whisked back to Cape Grace where all the arriving ROAR memebrs were meeting and greeting in the lobby, followed by lunch on the terrace.

Cape Town is very European - the city center is compact and you could probably walk to the majority of the central attractions & museums. Tomorrow morning we have a city tour so we didn't visit the places on the itinerary for tomorrow, but saw quite a few of them as we did our walk.

Just poppped downstairs to fix my aol password, which Brad somehow managed to change - he can't get his biz e-mail when away due to firewalls, so he gets mail to my account. I emerged from the elevator (with my evening sherry in hand - still some available since Suzie and Marilyn went to Table Mountain...) and saw an LCT gathering in the lobby - Ngaire, Ken, Linda, Ron, Michele and Don had all arrived. I missed the Amazing Race mat/elimintation/non-elimination event so don't know if that happened or not.