Anyway moving right along !!!
So my last post ended with the school play ... which was loved by all and a huge success... and another thing crossed off my 2012 list ... and of course I have to mention Kelsey and HVJR .. sadly their team was beaten in the finals but our boys made us proud by bringing home the silver cup... well done HVJR U15A squad ... another hugely successful season over.
Wow !!!
What an awesome and eventful October we have had ... And it's not even over yet......
And where do I start ... SADLY at the end of September we lost a very valuable member of our family Indiana 4 Paws ... she was taken ill and the vet thought she had biliary (doggies version of tick bite fever) unfortunately it was worse ....after tests and eventually the vet operating on her it was discovered she had a tumour the size of her stomach and unfortunately there was nothing they could do to save her...
R.I.P Indi 4th July 2008 - 27th September 2012 (she is missed every day)
Paul and Martyn arrived ... safely (see Martyn flying ain't so bad is it???) on Friday 28th September and no sooner did the guys arrive than our holiday began ... we drove up to Polokwane ... my idea was for Martyn to enjoy the scenery and see the vastness and just some of the beauty that South Africa has to offer. I loved seeing South Africa through someone else's eyes... does that make any sense ??? And I do believe Martyn liked what he saw... well he has promised that in true Arnie style(or Schumacher ...inside joke LOL) ... he'll be back !!!
We had an AWESOME couple of days up in Polokwane with Nan and the kids ... fantastic 30'c - 36'c HOT HOT HOT SA weather ... (oh I soooo miss the Summer !!!) Martyn was given the full SA heat treatment LOL ... he learnt to appreciate why most of us have pools at home ... we all swam, sunned and consumed copious amounts of alcohol (all so we did not get dehydrated of course) of course Nan and family were yet again the perfect hosts ... Nan had organised for us to join Alexia and Meghan at Jembisa Game Lodge for the most amazing 2 days of game drives, bush walking and even boar hunting ... yes you read it right ... Kelsey actually shot his first wild boar ... what an experience for both Kelsey and Martyn ... and of course I got to spend time with my bestest ever friend in the whole wide world ... what an absolutely wonderful wonderful couple of days ... thank you Nan, kids, Andy & Lorraine ... we'll see you guys again soon ... Christmas is not that far away
The boys swimming in crocodile and hippo infested lake ...
The last of the great white hunters !!!
Kelsey's first kill ... approx 60kg warthog !!!
So after an awesome couple of days in the bush it was back down to the coast ... and of course had to make sure Martyn got the full treatment .. the Hillcrest fog, rain, mist, wind and everything else that this town has to offer... We did the Phezulu African Village/Safari and Fear Factor Lunch !!! (in mist and rain !!!)
Martyn picking a new wife from the Zulu Village LOL ...
Fear Factor lunch ... eating in the crocodile pit ... and YES that is a REAL crocodile !!!(BUT the lunch was NOT crocodile ... they ate beef burgers ... apparently the croc likes those too, as well as human butts LOL ...)
One of Phezulu's newest arrivals ... the latest 'Baby' Giraffe , and he was a right poser, I managed to get some awesome up close and personal pics ...
Next we did the true Durban experience ... the Beach and the Indian Ocean ... followed by uShaka Marine World and Aquarium ...we had to make sure Martyn saw everything that Durban has to offer ...
Sun, Sea & Sand ...
Paul & Kelsey took advantage of the scuba diving at the Aquarium ...
While Martyn & I did the dark depths of the aquarium ...LOL and then we offered the sharks a tasty morsel ... Kelsey or Martyn???
To add yet MORE to Martyn's SA experience ... we trekked inland to go swinging through the tops of one of our indigenous forests at Karkloof ... yes he experienced the Karkloof Canopy Tour ... regular fans will know Kelsey & I did this a couple of months back and it was fantastic then ... but this time there was THICK mist and fog ... what an even more incredible experience ... you set off on the zip line into the fog and had no idea what was coming at you .... WOW
Check out the mist ... Martyn playing Tarzan ...
And Paul swinging through the trees...
To prove we were all crazy enough to do this ...
Boys being boys ... and having fun
And of course we had to do a bit of local sight seeing ... took a quick detour to Howick Falls...
Martyn thought he's try the balancing act on the railings ... scared the shit out of me ...
and of course Paul had to do his pose too... thankfully he did'nt feel the need to try the balancing act ... cos knowing his luck ... he would have fallen !!!
Boys ... where to next???
Even after all this ... the boys still had another week here !!! K and I went back to school /work but I had sooo much for Paul & Martyn to do ... after all I had the HHS Sports Award Dinner to organise ... and they were my Biatches for that week LOL ...
Needless to say the sports award dinner was a huge success ... (of course it was ... yours truly organised it ... was there any doubt???) The theme was the Olympics... I had the boys hanging the 5 rings from the ceiling .. we had the Olympic flame on each table with the flowers representing the flames and the tables were the colours of the Olymipic rings ... shit I'm good at this stuff ... should've made a career outta it or something !!! Hahahaha
Kelsey was invited to join the DRSU U15 invitational squad ... to play rugby of course ... which was pretty awesome as it meant Martyn & dad got to watch him play ... and typical Kelsey ... he plays the whole season with no injuries ... dad comes to watch him and he ends up with a bloodied eye !!!
We celebrated Paul's birthday with friends and the twisted sisters ... (well Martyn could not come all the way to SA and not meet them now could he???) another fantastic weekend and of course copious amounts of alcohol was consumed ...
Martyn made a few new friends before he left !!!
And then their 2 weeks holiday was OVA... and it was bye bye Paul & Martyn and back to normal for us ... and so that pretty much ends this epic chapter !!!
I'm back at work, Kelsey is back at school and the other two have gone back to the UK ... and our lives have gone pretty much back to BORING !!! Although I'm sure I'll find a few other bits and pieces to tell you about in the next post !!!
