My Birthday

My Birthday
On Friday I woke up to Martin’s voice singing Happy Birthday. When he called me into the living room a short while later he surprised me with a delicious chocolate cake covered in a creamy ganache with golden candles. I blew them and enjoyed it before unwrapping a pink fluffy morning gown. The bell rang and I received a huge, colourful and stunning flower bunch from Christine and Stefanie! We then got dressed and drove away in our car, I had no idea where to… When we stopped at the Gourits River Bridge my heart started pounding. I knew what it meant to be here and got very excited. This bridge is famous for its 65 metres bungy jump! We walked down to the bridge to watch a couple do the thing we were about to do and ten minutes later it was our turn to stand on the edge, hear the countdown and jump!!! It was so amazing. The two of us tied together just dropped into the valley and then swung under the bridge. After a long scream I recovered from the adrenalin rush and loved that experience.
The next surprise was that Martin took me to my favourite outdoor café; the Redberry Farm. I always love going there. It is so peaceful. The sun was shining while we enjoyed a delicious cheese platter with pickled figs and apples and I sipped a refreshing strawberry drink.
Martin had planned a good and a bad weather version of the day and since it was still so early we got to do both. Which meant that we drove to the mall and watched “Indiana Jones”. It was the first one for me and I loved the movie. It is very adventurous, but not frightening, involved some history, some comedy and was so interesting to follow.
Later that evening Martin invited me to an Italian restaurant that I’ve always been wanting to go to. It is called Piatto. It’s a double story place. The top is a bar and lounge and the bottom is where one eats in little round sofas. We were take to one of them by a very friendly waitress and handed cocktail menus. It was good luck that we happened to get there during happy hour. We each got an amazing looking drink, colourfully decorated. With it we enjoyed a thin based garlic focachia. Later on Martin got a traditional Spaghetti al Arrabiata, while I got a great vegetarian platter. On it were three bars of haloomi cheese, a spanakopita, a baked potato with creamy cheese sauce, ginger vegetables, feta served on a fried mushroom, olives fresh cucumber. It was every vegetarians dream and extremely nicely presented on an oval plate!!!
We didn’t ride straight home after that, but instead headed to town to a club called Carouse, where we first enjoyed a drink in a quiet cosy corner and then danced!
It was a great day and I will always have my 22nd birthday in good memory thanks to Martin! Many people also thought of me via sms, gave me phone calls and sent me presents, which I truly appreciated.

Flying

During the past week we did a lot of flying. Martin had to get his last few hours before he and reached all the requirements for his commercial pilots licence. We made a beautiful flight at night time inlands passing a few little villages, we flew in the sunset along the coast to Plettenberg Bay and last Saturday we took a long trip nearly to Cape Town. Flying is just magnificent! For the first time I saw dolphins and shark in the sea! South Africa is really such a beautiful country and we are sad we have to leave it so soon. Martin is working on his BMW a lot at the moment. Everything has to be perfect before we can drive it to the train museum in George to display it! After a lot of thinking whether and how to keep his 1970 BMW he saw a sign at the this museum where they have a lot of oldtimers on show on which it said that they are still looking for more cars. Martin contacted the guy and for only 35 rand a month he can exhibit his car and every year when he comes back for the renewal of his licence he can take it out and drive it around.
Friday last week was a beautiful sunny day and we decided to go to the point in Mosselbay for probably the last time. At Delfino's on the beach we enjoyed a mouthwatering nacho plate and and some South African wine while watching the surfers and feeling some of the last sun rays this season. A lot later we got seated inside this Italian restaurant for delicious pizza and pasta followed by their famous coffee and cakes. We really spoilt ourselves since this dinner was the celebration of our 3 years anniversary.
Yesterday we walked down to our beach and sat on a bench for a long while enjoying the huge waves. The temperature is getting colder every day and the sun isn't able to force his walmth through every day. Today the air was very humid and one could feel the salt in it coming from the sea.