Today was the last day that Mass will be celebrated in St Paul Church for a while. Tomorrow the renovation process will begin. We’ll be celebrating Mass in the gym of the school – the first building to house the celebration of the Mass when the parish was young – until the renovation process is complete. It’s hard for us to think of this as the “old” church since we vividly remember the last renovation of the church interior in 1979. Guess we’ve been a part of this community for a while! We even remember a time before the parish had a website!
Queen Mary 2’s arrival in the Port of Dakar, Senegal was heralded in the local press and greeted with ceremony. Our own excursion took us on a coach journey through the streets of the capital city to visit a Wolof village and the shore of Lake Retba, the salty lake famed for an intense pink color.
Today’s safari adventure transported us out into the Dorob National Park to have up close encounters with little creatures that are well adapted to the extreme heat and lack of water in the Namib Desert.
With a UNESCO World Heritage Site, two national parks, dozens of museums, and hundreds of tours offered in the Cape Town area there is more than plenty to do. For our two day visit we opted to concentrate on African wildlife visiting the Aquila Private Game Reserve and the Boulders Beach Penguin Colony for a wonderful chance to these fabulous animals in their own habitat.
Today was the last day that Mass will be celebrated in St Paul Church for a while. Tomorrow the renovation process will begin. We’ll be celebrating Mass in the gym of the school – the first building to house the celebration of the Mass when the parish was young – until the renovation process is complete. It’s hard for us to think of this as the “old” church since we vividly remember the last renovation of the church interior in 1979. Guess we’ve been a part of this community for a while! We even remember a time before the parish had a website!
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