Today was quite a day! In a good way!!
A while ago we decided that we should take the girls on a train ride to Fish Hoek and back. We used to go by train everyday as kids to school and back but nowadays most people that we know don't use trains all that often.
So yesterday we spent quite a while trying to find a telephone number to get information about the train times etc. Well, easier said than done!! We could more easily find a timetable (via Google) for trains in Melbourne than we could for Cape Town!! Anyway eventually we found what we were looking for. Funnily enough, while we were busy with all of this my friend, Mandy sent an sms saying "taking the kids to Fish Hoek on the train tomorrow do you want to join us?"!! How weird is that? Anyway, we all ended up going together.
My Dad got up at 5:30 this morning, loaded up the car with all sorts of beach paraphernalia including food etc. and drove to Fish Hoek, parked the car at the beach and took the train back. We then all set off for the station and boarded the train for Fish Hoek! The train was surprisingly clean and I felt very safe, there were very helpful passengers who helped us get our 2 prams, 5 kids - and a partridge in a pear tree - onto the train!!
The beach was perfect! Just my kind of day. There was just a gentle breeze, slightly overcast, beautiful waves.
The kids had an absolute ball.
There was water in buckets (Niaves favourite),
digging (Joel is quite an efficient digger!),
swimming (Abigail LOVED the swimming),
playing with friends
and just generally having a good time. (This picture says it all!!)
(There is a great new jungle gym there too.)
Then, before the midday sun burnt us to a crisp we packed up and headed back to the station for the ride home.
Besides the 20 minute wait at St. James station for some unknown reason, the trip was very pleasant, and very cheap. At R5,50 for an adult and R2,80 for children over 6 (of which we had only 1) it sure beats the petrol and the traffic!!
Next time we'll be sure to travel lighter, there are a fair number of stairs involved to get through the subways, obviously designed by a man!! If it had been done by a woman I'm sure there would have been ramps!!
Anyway, it was a good day, the kids loved the train and the beach and the chocolate ice-cream at the end rounded it all off nicely!!
3 comments:
It looked like an amazing day!! Would love to take the train to the beach, nearly did it those holidays but was planning to go to Boulders. The train didn't go as far. So you stop at Fishoek? :)
Hi, yes you can go as far as Fish Hoek or even Glen Cairn. I don't think you would be able to get to Boulders without quite a lot of walking.
Lovely, Lovely!!! Of course would loved to have been there. Will definitely have to put it on our list of New Things to do in 2009!!!
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