30 more seconds...

We started the day by driving to the Neighbor Goods Market. In Cape Town, there are lots of "helpful" parking attendants who wave you in from the street and help you fit your car in a teeny tiny parking space. Then, if you give them a few Rand, they supposedly watch over it while you are away. Works for us!

The market was a lot of fun. Ryan says, Unfortunately we ate breakfast at the guest house,otherwise we would have stuffed our faces with tasty eats at every turn. We did pick up sandwiches and a cookie to eat later for lunch. Then hopped a tour bus that went all around Cape Town. The bus had an audio tour guide that was very educational.

One of the first stops on the tour was Table MOUNTAIN. We should have considered it a sign when the line for the cable car to the top was a couple blocks long, but nope. We headed to the hiking trail. we opted to take the Platteklip Gorge route, supposedly the "easy" way up the mountain. Take our word for it, there is no easy way to climb a mountain. The trail is 1.9 miles long and goes up 2,600 feet. It took about 3.5 hours to reach the top, with plenty of "sit and let our heart rate return to somewhat normal" breaks. It was always a challenge to get Ryan moving again after one of those breaks. "Just give me 30 more seconds!!" We didn't realize how hot it was...or how thirsty we would be...and greatly underestimated how much waterto bring. I guess our thirst and the heat was a motivator to keep climbing to the top where we could buy more, but seeing the ocean and waves rolling down below was torture... We saw a few lizards but no snakes or dassies.

It was a tough climb but a lot of great views along the way and at the top. We took the cable car down...took all of 2 minutes.
We hopped (ok...it was maybe more like crawled) back on the bus for a nice tour of Cape Towns coast line. Back in our room enjoying being horizontal and deciding how to spend our night.