Stellenbosch

Brooke's mom will be visiting in another week and we want to go to Stellenbosch with her (South AFrican's Napa Valley), so today we made a trial run. A few highlights were the large cross-section of topsoil displayed as a piece of art:

And a Dutch Reformed Church with a mammoth pulpit. No altar. Just this bad boy. Consider the contrast between this architecture and the Rondebosch United Church which got rid of its pulpit altogether.

Here's a view from the pulpit. On the way out, the docent told us, "There is no seat in the sanctuary where you can sit without the preacher seeing you." He laughed, but it was kind of scary. And, it seems to me, there were a few "obstructed seats."