Annie nice to hear you have arrived on the African continent safe and sound. I glad to hear our Rwanda hotel is flourishing. I really fell in love with Rwanda and I had such low expectations initially. Thanks for posting I was happy to hear from you.

We had a PERFECT day in Cape Town on our first day beautiful sunshine. I talked as many as I could into going up on Table Mountain and they all enjoyed it. We went to Baia that night and many of us ordered the wonderful lagastino platter, YUM YUM.

Today we did the Cape Point tour and ended at Birkenhead House. Weather was partly cloudy and windy and a little cold. The guide was the best I have had and I will definitely use him again. He did not think we could arrive at Birkenhead House by 5.00 pm but I told him I be we could do it. We stopped at the Ostrich farm, went up the cable car at Cape Point and most walked down. We went to the Black Marlin and I suggested we all just order a main to speed things up. Then to Boulders to see the penguins and we arrived at Birkenhead at 4.50 pm. Perfect!

I always forget how lovely it is when you first arrive at Birkenhead. Shane was on hand to welcome us and it was so great to see him. We had an hour to freshen and then met for drinks before dinner. We asked Shane if we could take a picture with him and all the girls that Ken can post tomorrow I told him it was for "all the girls he;s met before!

Yes you guessed it rack of lamb on the menu and it was cooked perfectly medium rare as I requested. I did manage to have an extra lamb chop from some else's plate I traded a bread roll for a lamb chop I think that worked in my favor. The staff this time are really a lot of fun it was a noisy dining room

After dinner some of us stayed up and have a wonderful time in front of the fireplace, finally we all decided we had better hit the sack.

Six are going on the shark tour tomorrow and the rest plan on just enjoying the house and taking the walk. The weather is supposed to be warmer tomorrow and hopefully less wind.

The internet is wireless in the rooms now and working GREAT that is a big improvement from our last trip.

Be back later.