A really great weekend ...

Had another fantabulous weekend ...

Collected mum on Friday, unfortunately didn't get to see Irana for 'brunch' Friday as Sophie, her youngest, got kicked by one of their horses and has broken her leg !!! We're gonna plan a get together sometime next week ... but I am running out of time now aaargh...

So before I picked up mum, managed an hour or so in Chesterfield ... crossed off another few items on my list ... gonna need another suitcase at this rate LOL;-)

The boys didn't get back till much later on Friday night so mum and I enjoyed our Friday night Fish & Chips supper (MMMmmmm with mushy peas of course ! )

Saturday was a nice long lie in ... no rushing up and dashing off ... Paul & Kelsey had some stuff to get for his science project mmmm!!! so mum and I popped into Mansfield for a couple or 4 hours !!! Got another load of list items ... and a few not on the list (PMSL), we met the boys for a late tea/early supper around about 4ish to be told that Paul had a surprise planned for Kelsey & me ???

Off we went over hill and down dale ??? Where are we going I wonder ??? Micro-Lite Flying !!!! Friends of ours, brother-in-law has his own Micro-lite and of course "it would be a pleasure to take US !!! up" ??? W.T.F!!! At first I thought oh great Paul has organised this for Kelsey ... no me too (OMG I'm not that keen on heights I have to tell you !!!)

The Sexy Little Machine ... and it's purple ... I just have to have a go (OOOh NOT)

OMG !!!

You know it's high when the clouds come out to meet you ...

Pretending to be brave ...

That is such a fake smile !!!

Look how high we're going ....

Does this look like the face of one who is having fun ???

Can you spot our house ??? We can

Rob took this as he and Kelsey were flying over Bolsover ... (maybe I'll go that far next time NOT)

Buildings at the bottom of the photo are the hangers for the micro-lites ???

Hold on we're turning to the left ..... OMG!! OMG!! OMG !!! ( I sooo wanted to say worse than that but Rob would have heard through the speakers ... after this I just closed my eyes and said "I'm on a bike, I'm on a bike " PMSL (NOW)

Rob just had to fly over these huge abandoned cooling towers ..."get a shot looking down into the centre" Are you F...#$ mad I asked ... there was NO WAY I was leaning over there ... but this was the best I could do ... not bad for a scaredy cat eh?

Look how high we are .... ooops

All I could see when I took off ... once I opened my eyes of course ....

Be a brave girl now !!!!

That's Kelsey's orange arm sticking out waving to us ...

Ready for the off my child ....

In this ???

OMG ... I'm going flying !!!!

But I did it !!! And as scared as I was ... and even through a visor I still managed a few photos ... (but honestly gals inside I was screaming very loud !!!I don't think I've ever been so scared in my life !!! :-o)

Rob took a camera with him and managed some really good shots to, of us on the plane with him ...in the air !!!! ... he took Kelsey right over our house and Bolsover castle ... he got the longest flight (TG). Apparently I went up to 1500ft, Kelsey about 2500ft and Paul of course just had to be 'jack-the-lad' and they went up to 5500ft but couldn't stay up there too long cos it was bloody freezing :-)

Oh and as you can see I've managed to get the photos loaded onto Blogger ... Finally ... but not all blogger's fault ... Paul's laptop doesn't take SD cards ???

And today was another lovely day, Rob our Pilot, his wife Colleen and Isabelle (ooops did I miss off the gorgeous baby Kiara ??? ) all came round to our place for a BRAAI... true SA style ... and I even made vetkoek for them ... Rob just loves it ... oh I think I forgot to mention they are all Zimbabweans so braais are a fond pastime for them too ...

What a really fantabulous weekend ... even though the weather decided not to play along too nicely today ... temps have dropped a bit but ...

Good Food, Good Wines, Good Company ... what more do you need ???