Cape Town Sight Seeing with No Danger Diaries

Challenge Accepted! 

A bunch of crazy cool  Capetonian Guy's and Gal's were challenged to meet on Sunday the 16th of September 2012 in Camp's Bay dressed as a tourist from different country's, the point of this challenge? To be a tourist in our own city. The result, a fantastic day of sight seeing and fun!

We had tourists from all over the world join us!
Germany, Netherlands, Dubai, Florida, Australia Mexico, France and Switzerland

Driving through Sea Point

The Lovely and extremely helpful and efficient ladies at the ticket office at The Water Front

We arrived at the Water Front and found these ponies and we all wished we were 6 again and then acted like we were six again and went for a ride!

We definitely wanted to stay and play 

Brunch at The Water Front

 

                                    Dan Squared - Skinny and Becker

Love was in the air!

The One and Only staff were super friendly and accommodating,
they even gave us a  lift in a golf cart back to the bus stop.

And we were off once more, in search of new sights new adventures

Dan: The Kids channel is brilliant!!!!
Trav: Its hilarious!!! 

Passing the CTCC which reminded me of the recent Mercedes Fashion Week, were I was lucky enough to see many fantastic designers latest creations - my favorite being Lalesso.
Check out    http://susanakennedy.blogspot.com/2012/08/beauty-food-entertainment-fashion.html

Driving through town we were blown away by the amount of land that had been reclaimed and the rich history which surrounded us 

These two benches marked a sad time in South Africa's history where racial division was rife and black
and white were unable to share a simple street bench. 

Arriving at The Mount Nelson we were greeted by The Guards Regiments ... or @NoDangerDiaries version 

 We decided we had to check out The Planet Bar, it had a beautiful mobile of our solar system...

This pic doesn't do it justice

I even found my planet... mmm... whats it called again?

And Sebastian knew exactly where we were, clever boy ;-) 

We were off...

I was from Mexico, does anyone know who my inspiration was?

We passed District 6, another one I cant wait to explore

Moravian Chapel

The Castle Wall

I definitely want to go into the castle next time and have a good look

Beautiful Cape Town City Hall

Back in the City Bowl

Lions Head

Table Mountain

Cable Car...

View from the parking area of table mountain

Thank You City Sight Seeing Cape Town my appetite for discovering new sites and facts about our beautiful city was definitely been whet, it was definitely an awesome day, one I will never forget.

Make yourself Happy...You can...

1. If you were happy once, 

you can be happy again:

 Although this concept is so simple, when stuck in a dark depression it is hard to remember that there is light around the corner. We forget that every second holds the possibility to change, to go in a new direction. If you remind yourself that everything is momentary, every moment passes and is replaced with a new one and you where happy once, therefore you can be happy again. If you remember that you will accelerate in the direction of the light.

2. You are moving through the darkness:

If you are reading this blog, you may think you are stuck but actually you are actively doing something to better your life, you are in search, you are moving through the darkness, which means you are not stuck at all and although your headlights are not working and you cant see where you are going or that you are even moving, be alert, keep your chin up because before you know it 

you will see light up ahead...

3. Gratitude:

Everyday, fill an entire page with things that you are grateful for, no matter how small or silly or massive they are to anyone else, don't worry about that, just do it for you. At first it may be difficult but the more you do it you will see that it becomes easier and easier and Gratitude is without a doubt one of the quickest surest ways to blow that dark cloud in another direction and let the sunlight in.

4. Random act of kindness:

Make it your mission to do a random act of kindness as often as you possibly can, when we are depressed everything is about us and how awful we feel, there is a whole big world out there and each and every single person has their own baggage, their own scars and fears to deal with. Focus on making someone else happy, it may just surprise you how wonderful it feels not to be thinking about yourself and to make someone smile...

5. Teeth Smile!

Sometimes you gotta fake it till you make it

Do it! Don't worry about the fact that you look completely insane, the best most innovative creative people are insane. Smile as hard as you can for as long as you can, even if you are smiling through a snot cry session. Put on your favorite song, sing at the top of your voice, dance - get your body moving and Smile!