Good morning from Cape Town! We arrived at the hotel at about midnight with a very great desire to not fly for a long, long time. Or at least a week and a half or so. The flights were measured by the amount of food served. Several people turned away the final plane meals and were probably happy they had, as there was a nice snack at the hotel of chicken, samosas, cold cuts, and a salad.

Many are learning that just because one wants something, one can't always get it right away. I dealt with that last night when I wanted to start this blog and could not get the Internet to cooperate. Others need sunscreen this morning, but this is a pretty civilized place and it will be hard to find such thing prior to our 7:30 bus departure for Table Mountain.

Our hotel looks to be in a fun little neighborhood - gelato right near by, and we are right across the street from the Cape Town (soccer) World Cup Stadium (93 days till kick off!). The people have been lovely. Several people (ahem) did not sleep that well, mostly because 1) we didn't know we had an air conditioner, and 2) if we had known, we would not have known how to turn it on. All set on that now.

We had a wonderful breakfast of fresh fruit (guava, pineapple, watermelon, other melons, toast, cereal, and yogurt), so I was very happy.

Last night, we needed to stop at the main terminal at the airport to purchase the cell phones that we can use to communicate here. Well, that took longer than anticipated, but those of us who stayed on the bus were treated to the hijinks of one of the porters who had put our bags into the bus. He was pretty funny and had the kids laughing for about 15 minutes or so. He taught them a little Afrikaans until we got on our way (with cell phones that apparently still need to be activated - our driver will take them to a store today to get that taken care of.

Well, I have to run. Later, I'll have pictures and perhaps more of greater interest to say...but so far, so good!