Another busy day.  Urszula, Heinz and I met with Rene, the coordinator here at AIMS (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences) to iron out some things prior to the Workshop starting tomorrow with registration in the afternoon.  If you are interested in the Workshop, go to www.siue.edu/CAS/AIMS for further information.  I actually met 3 of the participants for the workshop today - one from Africa, one from Michigan and one from New Jersey.  It's nice to be able to put faces to names after all of these months of planning
After our meeting, we headed to the west coast of the cape region to a lovely village called Hout Bay via Chapman's Peak.  The road going there was hugging the mountain and very twisty with many ups and downs.  The view from the top looking down over the bay was breathtaking and I was really glad that Heinz was driving especially since everyone here drives on the left side of the road.  Since I was sitting on the left side in back I had a very interesting view the entire time -- wow!
Found  another Ocean Basket restaurant in Hout Bay for lunch/dinner.  We ate at one of these at the V& A Waterfront in Cape Town the other evening and had the kingklip fish again.  Max did some checking on google and found out that kingklip fish are found in the southern hemisphere around Africa, Australia and South America.  I wonder if any of these are available in the States.  I will try to find out.

Left out Hout    Hout Bay and headed to Cape Town again to see Kirstenbosch Gardens which is one of the largest botanical gardens in South Africa.  It actually started getting cool and cloudy so we did a quick tour and headed for home. 

Urszula, Heinz and I finally got to the beach and took a walk along the strand.  I had to walk into the Indian Ocean just because and the water was not even too cold which I found surprising.  The beach was unbelievably clean after all of the people there yesterday which was also surprising.

Signing off for now.  More later….