A sunshiny day.

Winter brings rain, wind, cold and even snow to Cape Town but it also brings beautiful warm sunshiny days in between. Yesterday was one of them.

We headed straight for Kirstenbosch.

Because we have Botanical Society cards the entry was free and we had a wonderful walk around the gardens. I decided that we're past the point where we have to schlep all our earthly belongings along to sit on a picnic mat in 1 spot. So we packed some juice and a couple of snacks and went walking.

We had been to Kirstenbosch with Ouma and Oupa on Sunday for Fathers day - - the first time Grant has been there in more than 4 years. And I promised Niave we'd come back with her boots so she could splash in the water and streams that are in full flow all over due to the rain we've had.

She was very happy!

We walked up quite high and found a bench to have our first rest stop.

When you walk around the enormous gardens, instead of sitting in one spot, you find places that you never knew were there like this beautiful lawn area that we've never been to.And some strange and interesting plants as well.
Not to mention dangerous ones!

As we walked we had 1 destination in mind:

Abigail to drink the mountain water and Niave to play in it.

We did eventually get there and they were overjoyed! (This is Niave telling me that "this is like the water that is like the wine that Mary had in her days"!!)
We also took a walk through the aloe garden which has all it's aloes in full bloom. There was a run down a hill...

...only to discover MORE water!!

Oh the delight of paddling in an icy mountain stream!

And don't you just love these two?!

Not bad for a winter's day!