Access to blogspot in South Africa has been impossible so far, thus the delay in getting much wanted information to everyone at home. But where there is a will there is always a way. So here goes. Here is some cutting and pasting from Dr. Rieck.
Day 1We are finally in Cape Town. we arrived here around 2 PM your time and got to the hotel about 40 minutes later. Things went really pretty well. Some interesting moments getting through the re-check procedure in Joburg (what the locals call Johannesburg). Overall very smooth.
Day 2We just got back after a very busy and hectic day. It was really good in many ways.
We started the day going up a cable car to the top of Table Mountain. It was incredibly beautiful up there. Cape Town is quite an interesting city. Kirsten
Rieck got some really great shots. Then we did a city tour on the bus and stopped at a shopping center, had lunch and went to meet a youth choir. It was a Milay group that gave us some traditional desserts, taught us a new song, we taught them one, had dinner and prepared for the concert that was supposed to begin at 7:30. At that time nobody was there, when we actually started the concert at 8:15 there was a great crowd. We didn't finish until about 10:20 (they had two choirs, some dance, and three soloists--then us). The pastor of the church who opened the concert with prayer talked to me afterwards and really loved the concert. He was very sweet and we had a nice talk.
Day 3Today's adventure is going to the Cape of Good Hope. We saw it from Table Mountain yesterday, but get to have the full experience today. We actually don't have a concert today. It is a cultural exchange and a picnic with the students from Stellenbosch University. We should be back to the hotel at a more reasonable hour tonight. I need to douse with sun screen now since it is supposed to be in the mid 90s today, but breezy.
Don't we all wish we were there...