The last few days in pictures

Hi!  I have had a picture filled couple of days!  I can't wait to share with you. 

On Sunday Jules and I went to Kalk Bay by train to spend sometime on the beach and soak up the sun. We bought fish on the dock, went antiquing, book shopping and into a garden shop.  It was a really lovely day.

Steam train!  In Kalk Bay

The yellow tail that Jules bought

My fish! 

Seals

My fish being cleaned

Garden Heaven!  

Jules in garden heaven

my fish in garden heaven

Waiting for the train

This is the amazing sandwich I made.  It's had avocado, red pepper hummus, and roasted veggies!  SO GOOD

This was my view when I was eating my best sandwich ever.  

The theme of cook club was fish.  Jules made sushi, Rachael made salmon dip, Omololu made a salad with smoked oysters and I made fish stew!  We had way too much food, and on top of it all, the majority of a chocolate cake Jules and I made on Saturday night.

Cook Club! (not pictured: Omololu's salad)

Sushi

pickled onions 

My fish stew! 

the best chocolate cake ever.  Coconut!  It's the secret, coconut milk, coconut fat, coconut flakes.  

On Monday I took a field trip with one of my professors who has grad students collecting data for the WHO's healthy learner survey.  So we drove to a beautiful rural area.  The town we visited was one of the first settled in the Western Cape and had the first school in South Africa!

view from the Bathroom

the Blacksmith's shop

This bell was a gift

this is the church!

the walk to the garden

surrounding hills

THIS BUG WA HUGE! it really was.  Bigger than my hand.  I should have put something in there for scale. 

On the way home we drove along the coast. It was beautiful and we saw many whales!  My professor brought a bunch of food along with us, and when we commented on that she said that it was something all coloured people do on road trips because they are still used to not being able to buy food at all the places they go through.  So we had really good egg salad sandwiches.

The ocean!  I missed them, but there were some whales out there.  Very cool!

I'm at the beach

a shell

On Saturday at 5:30 am I will be going on my Spring break trip to Kruger National park for a bit of a Safari!  I am really looking forward to it, but I have two tests to get through in between now and then.  Pray for me!  It is really really stormy here today.  I fell asleep on the bus and missed my stop this morning so I had to take a mini bus taxi from the bus terminal back to campus! It was an adventure!

Also, yesterday I started a sourdough culture.  So we'll see how that goes.  Right now it is resting. Updates to come