Retirement Day finally arrived. All Children’s threw a big party on the rooftop of the new parking garage! Well, actually it was to celebrate the placement of the last beam on the new hospital but it was on my retirement day! Just before six Steve and CJ showed up at the satellite door with fourteen pink roses and chocolates. I said my final goodbyes, looked around at the place where I had spent so many hours in the last fourteen years and headed out to celebrate with a wonderful dinner at Cafe Alma!
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.
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