So much has happened since I last wrote. I'll try sum it up and add some pics....
We were in Amsterdam till end of November. I had a glorious 10 days in HK spending time with Josh, Sal and Marius. Josh was gorgeous as ever and it was horrific leaving. We then went to SA for 6 months. The first month was spent travelling down from Durbs (our base camp) to Kenton for cuz Beth & Colin's tremedously beautiful and fun wedding. We had 2 weeks there in a gorgeous house at the river mouth. Jas and Sez came and joined us for a few days for Trace and Dalli's wedding, which we unfortunately missed. We had a ball and then packed up and trekked southwards in convoy with Gorts and Gen to her folks' amazing spot on the St Francis river (name??) It was beautifully quiet but unfortunately we had to move on after only 1 night... to Knysna where we stayed with Iain and Tanya and the boys in their awesome family spot at the heads, on the water. Oysters and champers, sunsets and swims...idyllic.
We then moved on down to Hermanus to see the family and stay for xmas. We had a night out in Franschoek to see the now-married Trace and Dalli and back to Hermanus with Lee's folks in tow.
A great xmas with both sets of parents and a seafood extravaganza. It was fantastic.
From there we went to cpt for a while before heading back to Durbs to settle into our home and get it all ready for a sale. We painted and broke a wall down and semi-furnished it... till someone fell in love with it and bought it. Meanwhile we tried to do some training for the Argus... didnt really succeed in training too hard, but the Argus went surprisingly well and we managed just over 3,5hrs!! We were both chuffed. Although Lee was a bit bummed about the cramps! :-)
Another whirlwind trip in CPT saw us back in Durbs for a surprise anniversary trip to the Hydro in the midlands and a flight for Lee to Amsterdam and one for me to Hong Kong to see Sal, Marius, Josh and the latest angel.. Amy. She is gorgeous!
So while Lee was setting up home in our lovely apartment in Amsterdam, I was having fun playing silly games and reading stories to Josh and getting smiles from and feeding Amy. They're goegeous- and Sal is just as gorgeous as ever too, and makes motherhood look seriously easy!
Now I'm back in Amsterdam with Lee and had an interview for work... now I wait and see.. and hope and pray I get a job soon. Have joined the gym- I never thought I'd ever do a spinning class in a different language- its challenging believe me!!
I'll try upload some random pics from the last 6 months. S xxx
So much has happened since I last wrote. I'll try sum it up and add some pics....
We were in Amsterdam till end of November. I had a glorious 10 days in HK spending time with Josh, Sal and Marius. Josh was gorgeous as ever and it was horrific leaving. We then went to SA for 6 months. The first month was spent travelling down from Durbs (our base camp) to Kenton for cuz Beth & Colin's tremedously beautiful and fun wedding. We had 2 weeks there in a gorgeous house at the river mouth. Jas and Sez came and joined us for a few days for Trace and Dalli's wedding, which we unfortunately missed. We had a ball and then packed up and trekked southwards in convoy with Gorts and Gen to her folks' amazing spot on the St Francis river (name??) It was beautifully quiet but unfortunately we had to move on after only 1 night... to Knysna where we stayed with Iain and Tanya and the boys in their awesome family spot at the heads, on the water. Oysters and champers, sunsets and swims...idyllic.
We then moved on down to Hermanus to see the family and stay for xmas. We had a night out in Franschoek to see the now-married Trace and Dalli and back to Hermanus with Lee's folks in tow.
A great xmas with both sets of parents and a seafood extravaganza. It was fantastic.
From there we went to cpt for a while before heading back to Durbs to settle into our home and get it all ready for a sale. We painted and broke a wall down and semi-furnished it... till someone fell in love with it and bought it. Meanwhile we tried to do some training for the Argus... didnt really succeed in training too hard, but the Argus went surprisingly well and we managed just over 3,5hrs!! We were both chuffed. Although Lee was a bit bummed about the cramps! :-)
Another whirlwind trip in CPT saw us back in Durbs for a surprise anniversary trip to the Hydro in the midlands and a flight for Lee to Amsterdam and one for me to Hong Kong to see Sal, Marius, Josh and the latest angel.. Amy. She is gorgeous!
So while Lee was setting up home in our lovely apartment in Amsterdam, I was having fun playing silly games and reading stories to Josh and getting smiles from and feeding Amy. They're goegeous- and Sal is just as gorgeous as ever too, and makes motherhood look seriously easy!
Now I'm back in Amsterdam with Lee and had an interview for work... now I wait and see.. and hope and pray I get a job soon. Have joined the gym- I never thought I'd ever do a spinning class in a different language- its challenging believe me!!
I'll try upload some random pics from the last 6 months. S xxx
