New blog address - http://lindasjournal.wordpress.com/

Due to my limited access (I can only view my blog not do anything else to it) it work I have decided to move the blog to wordpress so that I can start updating more.

The new address is:
http://lindasjournal.wordpress.com/

Hope to see you there :)

20 September 2010 - Rachel & Drewan

L, C and myself have been friends for many moons - we met in our first year at University way back in 1993. We have managed to stay in contact with each other over the years, despite C moving to Australia 5 years ago. L and I see each other more regularly with us being in the same city. In March this year C was blessed with a little girl, Rachel and she brought her to SA to come meet the family (and friends). Now L has also had a baby recently (14 July) and this was a great meeting of the old friends and the new ones.  Are they not the cutest babies.

24 August 2010 - Go-cart day

Michael had his first school go-cart day.  He was lookig so forward to it (apparently they practised with the go-carts at achool all week.  Come Saturday Michael was dressed and ready early already. 

Their little class did well and managed (I think) 43 laps of the course, but they were exhausted though and flopped down at the end after a good workout.

20 September 2010 - Highlights of Peru

It has been a week since I got back from Peru and I still have not managed to get the time to actually sit down and get my thoughts and feelings about this trip down in black and white.  I have managed to download my 780 photos though and of all of them I have chosen my 5 7 favourite ones (photos that is and not places) and my 2 (what I consider to be) brag pics.

So (in not particular order) :) - here they are:

Taken on the boat ride on Lake Titicaca from Puno to the floating island of Uros

A little girl from Uros

Machu Picchu taken from the guard-house

Entering Lake Sandoval in the Amazon Jungle

Sunrise over Lake Sandoval

A gorgeous flower in the jungle

The friendliest Alpacha ever!

And then my brag photos:

Reaching the top of 'Dead woman's pass' on day 2 of the Inca Trail - I was very thankful not to have been the dead woman of dead woman's pass that day.

Reaching Machu Picchu on day 4 of the Inca Trail after seeing it for the first time at sunrise (or just after) from the sungate.

12-17 September 2010 - Celebrations, a wolf and a clown

On 12 September my gran (mom's mom) turned 88 - what an achievement!  Happy Birthday Ouma - hope there are many more years to come......

Then on 14 September Ed and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary - what an achievement :) - seriously though, I can't believe how fast 8 years have flown by.

Andrew's school concert was held this past week and he (and the rest of his class) was a wolf in the production "Jungle Beat".  As per usual it was a brilliant consert and I honestly cannot believe how these teachers manage to get all these 5 and 6 year olds to do such an amazing performance.

Our week ended on Friday with Michael (and the rest of the grade 000's) having to dress as a clown for the day.  He was in his element at the thought of being able to actually dress up in something other than his uniform, but trust me it took a lot of convincing to get him into the clown outfit - he was determined to be a cowboy (again) and we ended up compromising with allowing him to take the cowboy gun to school - not too sure how that its in with the whole clown outfit, but at least he had a smile on his face.



27 August - I am off to South America

My mom, my sister and I are going to get to know mother nature a bit for the next 2 1/2 weeks - I am SO excited!!!

After 2 nights in Buenos Aires (Argentina) we are going here:

To go here:

Then here:

And finally here:

7 August 2010 - Michael's batman party

My mom gave Michael a batman suit for his 3rd birthday and since then he has been semi-obsessed with batman.  When he first go the suit he wore it to creche for about 2 weeks straight - he wore it day and night.  He fell asleep in it and I had to pry it off him to get it in the wash and dry again to get back on him before he awoke in the morning - if he was not wearing it there was chaos in the house :)  Every function/party/occasion we has he was batman - it was actually so cute. 

So come his party this year guess what he chose as a theme - BATMAN of course.....

I must say it was a lot of fun getting everything sorted and organised and I even attempted my own plastic icing this year, which was really not as difficult as I thought it would be.

The kids made their own "superhero" masks (covering my garden and house in glitter, feathers and sequins in the process), played, ate sweets, ate cake and (I think) generally had a great time.  The birthday boy was in his element from when his eyes opened up at 7am until they shut again at 7pm - it was HIS day, he had waited a full 364 days for this day and if the photos are anything to go by he LOVED it.

Happy 4th birthday my little batman.