About half of us ate dinner together in the hotel restaurant last night. We met around 8 and cleared out 10ish. We were divided among 3 tables and everyone was making new friendships or renewing them. A few of us went back to Arlene's and Marc's room for a nightcap and chatted away until midnight.

THis am we all had breakfast in the hotel (included). It was quite a spread!! Anything you wanted, you could get. At 9am we left for our tours, breaking into several groups. A couple of groups went to Table mountain and one group (ours) skipped it since we were there yesterday. I would like to say our guide was good..we were treated to a couple of places where cannons were shot off. We understand that the other groups actually saw the botanical garden and the dungeons and prison at the castle. Sadly, we just saw the teenist cannon ever shoot. We arrived back to the hotel at around 1 and tried to get on a Robbons Island tour, which we hear was fascinating, but there was no room. So, we gathered a group of ten and went to the waterfront for lunch and wandered around. The waterfront is very American. It could be the waterfront mall in San Francisco. What was interesting was the District 3 museum in which the story of the razing of colored's and blacks' homes were demolished to make way for a sole white neighborhood. Folks had to be identified as black or colored and the way many were treated was akin to the Nazi treatment of the Jews prior to the concentration camps. It was certainly an eye opener.

Folks have purchased souvenirs ranging from jewelry to ostrich eggs to ostrich hair jewelry to wooden masks. I finally bought myself a cute hat.

The weather is wonderful. Clear, blue skies and a perfect temperature, probably somewhere in the 70's. We have 7pm dinner reservations at a restaurant on the waterfront called Baia and will meet up with everyone there.

Tomorrow is an early morning as we leave for our wine country tour at 8:30am. Ta ta for now.