Genadendal, The Valley of God's Grace

On Saturday we spent the day touring Genadendal, South Africa, a town a few hours outside of Cape Town. Genadendal is a Moravian settlement and the first missionary station in South Africa.  It is also the namesake of Nelson Mandela's presidential residence. We spent the morning touring around and the afternoon eating a delicious and humongous meal at the home of our guide. After several hours of eating, we all settled in for a nap on the bus.  I don't have any pictures to prove it, but I also ate my first ostrich burger later that night back in Cape Town.

It only took a two hour bus ride to find autumn!

Entering the cemetery: "Sewn in Weakness" in Dutch.

"Raised in Glory"---I think. 

We loved on their animals.

The second course of our four course meal. I know I take a lot of food pictures, but I am spending a lot of time with food.

All of this food.....

....was made on/in this fire-burning stove-oven.

Our guide Paul and his Siberian Husky.

I saw a lot of "firsts" on our trip to Genadendal. The first pipe organ in South African, the first formal church....my first blue toilet.

Waving goodbye to our gracious hosts.