Long Street, Dresses, and Cafes

We are here: Cape Town, SA!

Today we spent a day shopping and lounging around on Long Street, Cape town. We all awoke at 10:00 after a long flight. This task was a bit difficult considering Tanner would not get out of the bathtub, and we ended up turning on the ice cold water on his head. After we were all dry, awake, and dressed, we went downstairs and had our continental breakfast.

The first store we went to was Africa Nova, where we looked at hand crafted ceramics, paintings, and jewlery. It was so fun to explore the culture of South Africa through the street. Long Street is one of the oldest streets in Cape Town, and it's known for its bohemian stores and cafes. We walked through endless bead shops and thrift stores. The boys didn't want to spend all day watching Cathrine and I try on every dress in Long Street, so they split off to go to the Reader's Den Bookshop. Cathrine and I ducked into Kluk & CGDT, this gorgeous dress store.

At 12:30, we met up again at the local restaurant, Long Street Cafe, where we ate lunch. Afterwords, we laughed and lounged around until about dusk when we went to Cafe Mozart for dinner. We enjoyed this because they had beautiful art and music. We then caught a taxi down to the Canal Walk, where we dropped our tired feet in the water and watched the beautiful scenery of South Africa. This was a day well spent.

Posted by: Carson