Let the Table see the Mountain...

This week is the City of Cape Town wellness day, a day of sporting competition for those who work for the council. MITS were the joint hosts of the event with Oasis, SSS and SA Gym team at a sports centre similar to ours in Belleville . The week started with meetings regarding our roles in the event and which sports were to be played... This ranged from football, rugby, netball, tennis, darts, dominoes, pool, and an obstacle course.

The wellness day was held later on in the week, on a super sunny, but super windy Thursday. Overall I think the event was a success, and everyone enjoyed competing and building some team camaraderie amongst their departments. It was a great event to be part of :) 

On Friday, our active citizenship participants didn't turn up for one reason or another. Whilst we were all together, we took the opportunity to have some team meetings, and get some more planning done for future events. 

On Saturday, we took a drive into Cape Town and chilled out in the sun with a couple of beers watching the rugby. 

Sunday was an amazing day. We climbed Table Mountain! A perfect chance for some quality team building/bonding... NOT.... It was every man for themselves from the beginning where the trail told us it would take 2.5 hours (LIES!!!) to the top. Charlotte the mountain goat was first to the summit in a cracking 1 hour 10 mins! From there, the group steadily made their own personal achievements in reaching the summit in a respectable time. Then there was Team Hobbit... As we climbed at our very own steady pace, once thought to be a pace unique to sloths, there was plenty of moaning about a variety of ailments, toes trapped in rocks, run out of water, children and old people jogging past us up the mountain (SHOW OFFS!!!) and even one man not wearing shoes! 

EVENTUALLY, after 3 hours of painstaking ascent, we made it :) The views from the top were amazing, but slightly underwhelming due to the high winds, which had now picked up to quite a gale. 

Once people had warmed up with some coffee, we had all decided the quickest way to make it off of the mountain alive would be to jump in a cable car. As we were queueing, an announcement was made notifying us of the closure of the cable cars due to the aforementioned high winds!!! NIGHTMARE... Queue emotional break down!!! The thought of spending the next couple of hours walking down the mountain was horrendous, in fact there was a point when I believed the wind would just blow all 500kg's of me down the mountain!!! These thoughts all happened at super quick warp speed, as the second sentence in this announcement told us that anyone who was in the queue would still be able to get down in a cable car! PHEW... 

Once we were back on level ground, Celina picked Charlotte and I up, and we went to Claremont for dinner and a catch up :) 

I feel like these weekly blogs are being written far too often.... Another week down!!!

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