Long nights, short days and lots of cake

Hi All,

Today presented with the peculiar problem of being too incapacitatedly hung over to perform the simple photo download procedure, together with the most unfortunate coincidence of leaving my mac at the parent-in-laws house has lead to the conclusion that today's blog will be convincingly laking photo illustration, but to keep my multitude of my fans entertained I shall include this link to a cat and balloon on youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE2r0vjkXK0

While my less mature audience participants are cheaply entertained by the confused cat, I shall explain how I got this way.

First let me start with the Happy Birthday Jolene...

Okay, these few lines have now taken me an hour, so going forward I'm going to summarise the events:

Boy it was a long day, this is even harder than i thought....

Met up with Jolene and Nacro (aka Marco, as affectionately known by Debonairs Pizza) to go to Jolene's birthday party at Moyo; medium to high range African Buffet style restaurant focusing mainly on large  meat potjie dishes, dinning in tents and tree houses, and located on the outskirts of Stellenbosch.  After having our faces painted, our tummies stretched and being entertained by African dancers, we decided it a good idea to drop into the cheetah encounter park and stroke a cheetah (photo proof pending).  Working hard not to become a statistic while posing for the million dollar photo (you'll have to believe me on this one) we stumbled home.  BUT bound to the ironically see-sawed law system in south africa, bottle stores are NOT open on Sunday (with the exception of 2 in century city, but they close at 5pm anyways).  GO FIGURE, just like re-living my teenage years, mom and dads liquor cabinet and 7 mini bottles of wine from the qantas air steward for forfeiting our 3 seater to a couple with a child, with other various combinations including wine, beer and Grappa from Jo and Nac's fridge, resulted in a marathon drinking session, ending somewhere near 6am then desperately trying to convince myself to sleep before the sun broke through our curtain-less beautiful big glass sliding doored guest room..

3pm.....woke up and realized that we needed vitamin pills, water, tea, pizza, toast, and to PICKUP our rental car (oh crap).

5pm....didn't get the car, but they should be delivering it tomorrow morning and we should be sober again by then, although I have started again on the Savanahs, so not sure.

In summary, Jolene was very happy with lunch and ample supply of presents.  Cheetah's black dots are softer than yellow fur.  There was lots of cake and tea (and jam, is that right?) at jolene's house and I forgot to email Flamingo for her birthday (sorry:( ).

Tomorrows aims are to leave the house, shower before 5pm, and get a phone card.

On Thursday we move into our place in Simon's Town and hope that we'll see lots of visitors :)  Will keep you updated on the phone number....

cheers bru!

Welcome to Cape Town

Saturday 27 March - 6am wake.
7am, harbour bridge closed, detour through habour tunnel, good taxi driver, willing to do illegal U-turns;)
7.30am probably the first to check in, and seated together. YAY!
3 hours wait.
13h55m SYD to JHB, 2 sleeping tablets, broken sleep, lots of crying babies, fish for breakfast, South African immigration, a quick run, a new check-in lady being trained up, another quick run - straight onto the plane, and then 2 hours Joberg to Cape Town and one creepy guy next to me (don't you understand cold-shoulder)  and we arrived in the Beautiful city of Cape Town!!

Hello Cape Town, you are so beautiful, it's good to be here.

Loving family picking us up, warm inviting home, delicious lasagne, klippies and coke, more sleeping tablets and 9 hours sleep....

7am And now we're awake :)

Started our adventure with a quick run down to Fish Hoek Beach and then a run along the beach, no wind, a few clouds dotting the sky line, reflected in the low tide wet sand.  It's a like running in a picture.   Iain, Ryan and I even dashed into the water, and then dashed out again, due to the fact it was probably close to 10 degrees, or at least felt that way (reminding me of the Milford sound).  Enjoyed with a yummy hot chocolate with Gail, Iain (parent in laws) and warm rays of sunshine.


I feel that I'm going to enjoy my next 2 months :)

Here are a few pics of beautiful Fish Hoek beach with the sun breaking through the clouds, still waters and peaceful morning.