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.