Maropeng Mother’s Day

After a lovely birthday party at the Italian Café around the corner from us on Friday evening, we settled into another weekend of relaxation and adventure. Last weekend was fairly quiet, nothing to blog home about, to turn a phrase. But this weekend featured MOTHER’S DAY! As elements of the Pizza Party on Friday were a surprise to me, so too did I try to make our Sunday adventure a bit of a surprise for Mma Jossie.

So, Mother’s Day. I thought I’d surprise Mma Jossie and take her to the Cradle of Humankind, a World Heritage Site which is only an hour or so west of PTA. They have a restaurant there, as do all the major attractions around here, so I thought we’d take part in the Mother’s Day buffet as well as a crash course in paleoanthropology. The main attraction in the Cradle is the Maropeng Visitor’s Centre, which is a pretty neat museum built into the earth in the form of a tumulus, or earthen hill.

The museum has a lot of information about the history of humankind and neat exhibits, which Jossie put on par with the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The Cradle of Humanity is the site of some of the oldest hominid fossils in the world. Mrs Ples and Little Foot are two of the most famous ones.

On the outside of the tumulus are several lovely vistas

And we had loads of fun...