JHB in the cold

Okay, so we spent the day at the National Museum of Military
history and the JHB Zoo, on the coldest day in history. I can't believe that in just 14 months we have so acclimatised to a reasonable temperature that -1 seems really cold! :) Keegan and I enjoyed the Military stuff, so next time we'll leave the rest at home! Zoo was great, really worth a visit, the guys are putting a huge amount of work into getting it 5star! Now for a restful weekend and then onto Kimberly

Day 4...

Day 4 of our Great Adventure and we spent the day at the Lion and Rhino Park in Kromdraai. This is in the Cradle of Human and boasts a really interesting set of Caves… The picture is of the 130 steps (at a 45% angle) that need to be navigated to get to the lift, to get to the cave… you should have heard the bitching… Awesome site, we had an excellent tour guide who really knew his stuff!!! Then onto the Lions, Cheetahs, Rhino, Buffalo, Springbok, Gemsbok, Tigers (Not native to SA, but being bred in Kromdraai) Hippo’s (which we could hear but not see) and the children’s personal favourite, the Jumping Castles…J all in all a good day was had by all!

Day 1...

Okay, so we have finally begun the legendary trip. Left yesterday and arrived thinking that the city was probably still home. Well, having driven around a bit and looked at the changes that have been made over the last year it really is not. Asked Nita where home was, and I guess we're not really sure. Ballito is certainly more home than JHB, but I guess more just a familiar place than really home. Staying with friends for the weekend and doing our final prep for the school outings for next week so lets see how it goes. Anyone who wants to pray that the now legendary "Sale" finally gets sorted out would be encouraged to do so :)

Gonna try and set up the response stuff on this blog, so please feel free to comment when you read it...

Wednesday - 2 sleeps and counting

Hi there, its Wednesday morning and we're getting ready for the "Amazing Race" as the kids have dubbed it. So tru to form, we were having Pizza oven repaired and the whole thing collapsed! So, we've been closed for the 1st half of this week and hope to re-open tomorrow. You cannot believe the crash a amount of dust as the whole thing came tumbling down...

I am going to keep the blog updating every few days with the "detours" so you can keep pace with us. First stop JHB and Lion and Rhino park, Wonder Caves, Pretoria Zoo, SA Military Museum, Wits Observatory, Bela Bela (nothing educational about thtis...) and then on to Kimberley...

Ciao for now...

Crap day...

Okay, so today was one of those. The worst customer day ever! A total of 6 customers for the day! Ouch!!! Anyway, Nita and I spent the day planning our “educational tour” round the country and I must admit, I am getting rather excited! 41 days, 5000km! and all this on a shoe string budget… 9 more customers just walked in… yay, yay…

The next step

Okay, so we have moved out the house and are in the process of "next stepping". Now being house-free we are planning to spend the next little while travelling with the kids and exposing their minds to our awesome country. I gues we have been doing that already since Jan but we are now stepping up the pace - Starting with how to milk a cow. Both Kyal and Kael were comissioned with milking a cow yesterday and succeeded (with a fair amount of squerming...) All in all they had a great time at Flag Animal Farm on the North Coast (10 minutes up from Ballito). I must confess however that I have had about enough of petting zoo's! Brett

The weekend that would not end!

Okay, so Tuesday is over and we are terminally exhausted! Just moved out of our rental (much thanks to Linda, Wayne watched movies, we would not have gotten out without her)... Now ensconced in a miniture house with Nita's folks and planning our round the country tour with the kids. The idea with the blog is to allow them to create a journal over the next few weeks as we travel and explore South Africa North to South... Now if we could just get a few weeks sleep we should be ready to start.