Yesterday after work, Matt approached Mike and I with an excellent idea. Let’s go to a bar and people watch he said, maybe take a book along so that we can read. To think I nearly took along Life of PI. Anyway, we drove down to Long Street and parked our car, and then made our way to the Che Bar, named after the famed (infamous?) Che Guevara. For evidence of this, please see the pictures. Anyway, we went into the bar and had a seat. Matt and Mike ordered mojitos as they were having a buy one/get one sale. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to so I simply sat back and looked at the menu.
Shortly, a woman joined us at the bar. Her name is Hillary, and she is a 28-year-old PhD candidate from Canada. The emphasis of her study is on sex. That is important for later, haha. Well, after she started talking to us, I told the bartender that I wanted something that had Amarula in it. He obliged me, and told me that he is a “mixologist”, and his hobby is making new drinks simply from his mind. He made me something, something extremely sweet. I asked him what it was called, and he told me that it didn’t have a name, because he’d made it up. I named it “Sex Talk” in honor of our new friend. After having a beer (the Sex Talk was FAR too sweet for me to enjoy more than one), we made our way to an authentic African cuisine restaurant.
At the restaurant, Khaya Nyama, we ordered our food. I got a “game skewer”, which had a variety of different antelope (kudu, springbok, and something else), as well as some vegetables. The mean was amazing. I was a little disappointed, as Hillary had told us that the restaurant served zebra. No zebra for me.
After we left the restaurant, we made our way to a college bar, The Shack, that Hillary recommended. After Matt and I had returned to the restaurant to get his wallet and then made our way back to The Shack, and found Matt’s newfound favorite bar in Cape Town. It was a total hipster, emo-scene, but very friendly. The Shack is made up of two separate buildings, with two levels each, and an outdoor area covered by a tent. It is huge. We had a great time. After Hillary bought us drinks, Matt and I went to explore. At some point after we left, Hillary and Mike left the Shack and went to a local gentleman’s club, Mavericks. The stories we heard from Mike later are quite hilarious, and are stories I will glad share in private someday, haha. I will only say this; there was no “happy ending.”
Anyway, as I said, Matt and I went exploring and met some new friends. We met a man named Rory and his girlfriend, Roxanne, as well as her brother and her brother’s girlfriend. Rory really liked Matt and I, as he bought us two beers apiece. We hung out with them for quite awhile. They left us later in the night, and Matt and I hung out until Collin, Tara, and two of Collin’s friends from work showed up. The six of us continue to enjoy The Shack, and then left around 2:30am or so. All in all, Mike and I have decided that whenever Matt wants to go “people watching” we will make sure to not bring any books, as well as to constantly leave “paper trails” all night so that our friends can find us should something happen. I’m not sure if I can “people watch” again anytime soon, haha.
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