A normal week...

It has been a week since Christine flew back to Switzerland. We enjoyed hers and Stefanie’s visit so much. A beautiful experience was the Plettenberg Game Reserve, where we did a long horse ride, saw giraffes, zebras, black and white impalas, rhinos and even a baby rhino. This was such an amazing experience, because the animals aren’t afraid of the horses. It was also so peaceful without the noise of an engine.
That same day Martin and Stefanie drove down to Cape Town and Christine and I stayed in Reebok, where we took a long and beautiful walk on the beach. We found lots of different shells, listened to the waves and enjoyed the broadness of the sea. In Cape Town they took the cable car up Table Mountain, visited the largest shopping centre of Africa and enjoyed this beautiful city.
When Martin was back we went to the Redberry farm, drove to Oudtshoorn again to show Christine the amazing Cango Caves, Martin and her went on the famous Choo-Choo train from Mosselbay to George and we spent lots of time on the beach. We who live here all the time had gotten used to the sea a little bit and Christine opened our eyes again to realise how beautiful and special it actually is!
Since Monday everything is back to normal again. I am spending the mornings at the playschool, where a new girl called Liezel started. The two of us get on so well and have started to become really good friends. Martin is so happy that he could fly in the simulator every day for about three hours and has made such a big progress.
On Friday we were invited to Nita and Cobus. Martin took his pilot’s gadgets along to give their son Cobus, who is very fond of flying an insight into planning a flight. This boy couldn’t get enough of it and was keen on picking everything up. He asked questions and keep wanted to know more. Martin had actually planned to take him for a flight, but the weather in George isn’t so great at the moment. We had a good time at their place and felt so honoured because Nita got us really delicious vegetarian schnitzels.
Yesterday we went to the movies in Mosselbay and on our way home a terrible storm started to build up. Just after we had parked our car safely in the garage it started to pour down. About half an hour after we had gotten home this storm cut a power line somewhere and we sat in the dark, our room was only lightened by a lightning every once in a while…