nog n naweek in Durban

This was the weekend i've been waiting for! After a 3 day intensive surgical skills course I (laparoscopy on turkey legs and pig intestines) managed to see the wave machine at Gateway shopping centre. It was a coldish but blue skye Saturday morning...and I managed to stand up on a surf board and ski!
We always get a bit mean with the shopping spree i.e we want to buy things we can't afford like lego and books for the boys etc. It reminds me of all the times I left SA after a short visit and then I would run to Music Melodies(is this correct?) at duty free and look under the Afrikaans section and try to buy all the cd's!
Ceri and the boys went to the bird park, snake park and miniland and we ate sushi...then back to Manguzi.
(i am not finished with this post so it may change) have to go to bed

next day:

These are some pictures of the garden, surfing, Ceri's vegetable patch (with beans, spinach, pumpkin, rocket), Ralph andextended fruit catcher.

We eat avos fallen from the tree(season almost over). There is a large coconut palm in the garden - we are not too keen for them to fall...average height 20 feet!

Louis' school sports day

JWK

Louis' school had 2 days of sport: this included dancing, drumming, zulu fighting, sand running and backflips on the sandheap. louis came 4th in the sand running race(off road) for his age which is a great achievement. There was some good chaos and what seemed like potential corporal punishment moments. Ceri attended the affair and Ralph was dragged away by some dancing/singing girls. The phots are a collection of events and Louis' classroom

Kobus en Sumari

Dit was lekker om familie in hierdie geweste te sien. Sumari en Kobus het die lang pad vanaf Pretoria hiernatoe in n rekord tyd(avec GPS) aangele. Hulle het midoggend by security aangemeld! Ons boot rit op 3de dam (st Lucia estuary) is gekanseleer en ons is toe in stede na die rafia palm forest (alias voetpaadjies vir seekoeie) en na lake Shengeza vir n sundowner(with cloud and no sun). Dis hier waar Suma n hele lunchbar met wurms geeet het ...

Die volgende dag is ons Kosi baai mond toe vir n lang stappie en vir een van Ceri se top notch pieknieks op die voet van die hoe sand duin. Dit was reenerig maar lekker.

Ek dink die potjie met groen papaja(die gebruik van die groen papaja is weereens bevestig in vele ander gesprekke na die naweek) en al die kerrie en borrie (uit Durban se pick n mix) was beslis n meesterstuk. Ceri is nou beter as ek met bierbrood bak.

Soos n roetine was ons weer Tembe toe en daar was genoeg olifante om te sien. Gelukkig het Ceri besluit om ons op die East swamp road te vat en dit het beteken ons moes die hekwagters bel om ons uit te laat- definitief die moeite werd as jy n night drive in jou eie voertuig wil doen.