Bread and Wine

          Doug picked the boys up super early this morning to head out for a golfing experience.  We'll see how everyone is holding up after 18 holes, two of the foursome aren't much for golf.  We were left to pack up all the gear and say goodbye to our Capetown villa...until next time, we'll miss you!  We arrived in Franschhoek at Le Quartier Francais and were immediatley excited about our upgrade.  Our original bed and breakfast lodging had flooded so they had transferred our reservations to one of the top 100 hotels in the world, score!  We had a fenced in courtyard that was PERFECT for Little Guy to play in while I unpacked the luggage and then we headed over to meet Jodie and Sarah for some swim time before lunch.
          We met up the boys post golf for a lunch and afternoon adventure at Bread and Wine.  We've decided Americans could learn a thing or two from the South African restaurant world- this place had a kids corner set up outside right next to all the seating so your kiddos could play blocks, trains, trucks, or dolls while mommy and daddy enjoyed a meal, brilliant!  The boys were all over this and it was nice to know that Little Guy wasn't being forced to sit through another long lunch.  I was even more excited that they specialized in a house made fresh lemonade, it was exactly what I had been craving!  We had another amazing meal (shocker!) and then spent the rest of the afternoon lounging in the garden, sampling the wine, and admiring the orchid green house.  It was sad to say a final goodbye to the Thompson family, but we're still hoping they come visit us stateside.
          No day would be complete without an intimate dinner reservation at Ryan's Kitchen...we decided to book babysitting with the hotel since this was a TINY restaurant not too conducive to our little boys and their energetic ways!  We felt a little sorry for our babysitter, but we warned her to bring a flashlight and a book since both boys were sleeping in our pitch black room...she didn't bring anything and ended up just sitting in the room while we were gone, but the boys did great and never woke once while we were gone.
          The setting for dinner was amazing, it was literally the living room/family room of a little house and you watched the kitchen as it prepared dinner.  There were four or five small tables, we were the largest group.  The chefs were unfortunately not as inviting to us as the hostess made it seem, but we still enjoyed a very entertaining meal with genius plating techniques.  We hoped into the kitchen after dinner for some group shots and Daddy ended up pretty embarrassed when he got close to who he thought was his wife, but it ended up being Lyndsay...apparently we are VERY easy to mistake from the back.  Some of our crew rounded out the night with drinks at the hotel bar, but it was bedtime for us!  Tomorrow we're hitting up town before taking the wine train to lunch and then heading out on a open jeep wine safari!