Hello from Cape Town!!!
After 120 days and 12000 kilometres, we are writing from Cape Town, South Africa. We have finished the 2009 Tour d'Afrique. We will send a "last update" when we get back home to Canada and have had time to really put it all into perspective, but we just wanted to let everyone know that we are safe and sound and quite ready to not get on a bicycle for a while. The tour ended with a 30km convoy to the waterfront area of Cape Town. We were accompanied by the Acting Executive Mayor of the city who is quite a cycling enthusiast. Upon our arrival, there was a marching band parade, a whole medal ceremony with national flags and bottles of champagne and even a VIP tent with as much food and champagne as we could fill ourselves with. We were not expecting such a huge welcome, but it certainly added to the feeling of accomplishment. Even the Consul Generals from all our contries were there! The city of Cape Town has a population that is very active and into sports, especially cycling, so they really made a big deal out of it.
We will be flying back home to Edmonton on the 13th/14th and will get back to our "regular life" pretty much right away. Again, you can expect a more full update of the last section and the tour as a whole when we get back (hopefully with lots of pictures).
See you soon!
Judy & Andrew
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