Thanksgiving, Cape Town style

Happy belated Thanksgiving to you all! It just doesn’t feel like fall harvest season here, as Thanksgiving is a non-holiday and the weather keeps getting warmer and warmer. Byron, Julia, Wenli, and I decided that if we couldn’t stuff ourselves with turkey on Thanksgiving, we might as well stuff ourselves with African food. We headed out to a very touristy restaurant where they serve you 15+ African dishes for everyone to share, with a fixed price/menu and freedom to order seconds of any dish. Needless to say, we ate a LOT. Though a bit touristy, it seemed like an appropriate way to spend Thanksgiving in Africa.

On Saturday, an American friend from work cooked a real Thanksgiving meal to celebrate the fact that her family was visiting (yes, we ate special-order turkey and even had pumpkin pie, thanks to the fact that her sisters smuggled some canned pumpkin in their suitcases). Cynthia and her family had rented a GORGEOUS house in Camp’s Bay (the most beautiful, exclusive neighborhood of Cape Town), and it was a perfect afternoon spent staring at the mountains and ocean and hanging out on the sunny deck. Of course it doesn’t feel like November when you have to wear sunscreen, but I think I could get used to that idea :)

Here's Camp's Bay, as seen from Lion's Head. Not bad, eh?

Here's the house...

...which had great views of the ocean...


...not to mention great views of the mountains!

And if the view from the ocean side isn't quite right, the pool in the back isn't so bad either

If only a Princeton in Africa stipend could pay for accommodations like these!!