Capetown and Pictures!

So, I got my act together and am putting some pictures up for you all to see. The past few days have been really fun.

First off, here is a view of the mountains from the patio of our apartment on Kloof St.


That's nice, no? Anyways, yesterday Mina, Laura and I took a 1/2 day tour down to the Cape of Good Hope - except we wound up going to Cape Point - which is almost the same thing - but not quite. We saw all these ostriches and penguins along the way. Here are some nice pictures of them.
The internet connection in capetown is pretty horrible, so I am going to upload minimal pictures - I have been here for 40 minutes already! Anyways, that was yesterday and then today, we went DIVING WITH GREAT WHITE SHARKS!!!! Surprise! I didn't want to say anything earlier or else my mother might have a heart attack. But it was really safe - in fact, quite benign. We were put in cages, 4 at a time, and we were only dipped like 6 feet underwater - and the cage was like 8 feet tall, so 2 ft were above water. We essentially were in wet suits and masks and just went underwater whenever a shark came by and held our breath. That's how it worked. For the first 3 groups, nothing serious happened, the sharks just swam around, came somewhat close, but were bored by us. Somehow, the last group that went got all the action! One shark came up and gnawed on the cage, and another two were really violent with the bait that was thrown out and dove for it and rattled the cage. And a final shark came by again to bite the cage. It was awesome - watching from the top of the fishing boat. Here are some pictures of the cage and sharks. This will take me another 30 minutes. Maybe 45 since it just crashed on me. I would upload more of us, but I don't think I can afford the Internet time.
And finally, one last one! Scary! Kind of. In a far away type of setting - more if I were actually in the cage at that time:

Tomorrow, Laura and Mina are going to hike up Table Mountain, as I am scared of heights, I will not be joining them. I'll probly sleep and go do some sightseeing and window shopping. And come back here. To upload more photos. and a shark video. Because now I'm getting hungry and cranky.