13 February 2010

on the waterfront

So my laptop has been in the shop for last 3 weeks.  Sorry for the disappearance.

If you've been reading along, you'll know we spend a lot of time at the V & A Waterfront here in Cape Town ("V & A" = Victoria and Albert).  It is a cool place, kinda touristy with an upscale mall and pricier then average restaurants.  But is has a nice vibe, with live music, street performers and it's still a working harbor (or harbour...still can't quite adopt the Brit-style spelling.)  The Two Oceans Aquarium is located here.

We ride on rollercoasters here:


The Boo pretends to be Batman on the Batman motorcycle on the carousel here:


We eat popcorn while riding the water taxi here:


We get chased in said water taxi by Cape Fur Seals here:


Today I was invited to a special presentation by a local women's group and it took place.... yep, you guessed it...on the Waterfront.  Since we only have one vehicle we decided to turn my meeting in to a family outing.  The Boo and daddy went to the Two Oceans Aquarium, since we are now members (woo hoo, thanks Nana!), while I went to the meeting. 

At noon we reconvened and decided to cruise over to Ferryman's, a pub on the waterfront with Bosun's Bitter on tap and a small playground that's a favorite Boo haunt.  The intention was to have lunch, let the Boo play and then get on with our day.  At 6pm...well, you guessed it...we were still there (sound familiar?!?) 

Somewhere around 1 or 1:30, a beautiful pale blonde showed up who could hold her own with the rampaging boys and our little man was smitten.

They played under the play structure:


He brought her flowers:


She returned the sentiment:


They played and played for a solid 5 hours.  The bushes surrounding the play area became steadily denuded of flowers as they gifted each other.  I have no idea what her name was as we were at no time invited in to the relationship.  We left well after 6pm and she was still there and the Boo was sad.  But he passed out in the car and his face was happy.