Our Family Weekend Away

This weekend we took a camping holiday to Buffelspoort with family and friends.  25 of us took Friday off and had a long, fun weekend in the sun.  It was brilliant to get away for a wee bit, wear no make up, leave hair to dry naturally, frolic in the pools and ride the super tube slide.  I spent quality time with my kids, I drank wine and lay in my hammock, I didn't take too many pictures but here's a few.

Bike Ride Around Camp surrounded by gorgeous hills

Around Camp

Crossing the Dam Wall along the road

Camp Sites

Kaylin enjoying a little R and R

Dirk looking a bit Wasted

Quick Supper on Friday Night.  Pork Rashers and Tomato, Cheese and Onion Toasties

Around Camp

Noel serinded us with his guitar strumming, setting a very relaxed atmospher

Mandy Holding the Torch for some of the campers that arrived after sunset

Mandy in her hammock

Kaylin having an afternoon nap in the hammock and A Daft Scots Lass making fun of her!

Off to the pools and super tube for a swim

 

November is Camping Month

....well, for us anyway.

We've booked and paid for our next camping trip.  Actually our first camping trip this year, WOW, now that I think about it, it has been a while.

Our last camping trip was December 2011!  So, it's been a while...  

We are booked in at one of our favourite resorts, Buffelspoort, for the weekend and I only hope that the weather is gonna be good and that our tent will hold out. 

Click Here to find out what happened last time we went to Buffelspoort in 2009.  Seems like a fekkin lifetime ago.

Roll on first weekend in November.  This lassies gotta get her camp on.

 

Stairway to Seven

July's Blog Challenge today is to state Seven Random Facts about Yourself.

Gosh I've already coughed up 100 Things About Myself.....now you want me to come up with another seven?

1. I adore and am addicted to Vanilla Tea
2. I think laughter is the best medicine
3. I can do quite an impressive hand-break turn
4. I cannot go one day without listening to music.
5. Pinterest sucked me in, chewed me up and spit me out and yet I still go back.
6. I'm planning a camping holiday for November this year
7. I miss my mum so very much!

Camping Weekend - Through My Eyes

A HUGE Thank You to our 26 friends who got together for the Camping Weekend at Buffelspoort. 

Thank you to Irene for the surprise gifts

Thank you to Dirk for being the Camp Photographer

Thank You to everyone who helped me look after my girls and kept them busy. 

They love you all and trust you so much.

They are so comfortable floating around between everyone like little social butterflies.

A Thank You  to EVERYONE for a great time! 

It was great to hang out with friends and have everyone together again.

Our Arrival at the Venue

How Many people does it take to put up a two-man tent?

KK and her Froggie Friend. 

She terriorised this poor wee frog until we finally felt sorry for him and set him free.

At the Camp -

13 tents and 26 people!

Some of the camp views

Dirk suffering from a hangover

Dirk

Our official Camp Photographer. 

Wait until you see some of the pix he took!

The Super Tube

Chris emerging from the Super Tube

Megan

Ria

Mandy and Kaylin

The Walk down to the restaurant and shop

Norman, Percy and Chris getting ready to make breakfast

Richard and Megan in the pool

Richard and Megan on the Super Tube

Shaun and Kaylin in the pool

Shaun and a very frightened little Kaylin on the Super Tube

Shaun on his own

Aaah LOVE

Richard and Chey

Kaylin and Megan

Stralicia

Tammy and Donovan

Ria, Mandy and Melanie relaxing at the pool

Piet, Norman and Chris

2 of the five pools they have at Buffelspoort

My Gorgeous Girls enjoying the pool

Megan and Kaylin

Camping Weekend - Camp Fuckers

There are always Camp Fuckers to be found..

First, you can't miss the South African Rugby Fanatics who buy a bakkie (aka truck) in their team's exact colour, kit out their cars with stickers and flags, wear the team shirt, the team hat and dress the obese wife and ice-cream munching kids in exact same sleeveless vests.  Very attractive.

The men parade around the camp with a ciggie in one hand, a beer in the other, their beer gut hanging over their short-shorts and their camp "pozzie" has every single purchasable Team paraphernalia that you can lay your hands on at the teeny weeny Camp Shop!  Team tattoos are a must!

Megan parking her bike next to a blue bulls kids bicycle with the Blue Blues Bakkie in the background.

The Second lot of Camp Fuckers you get are the Fitness Fanatics. 

These two dooshbags emerged at Dawn's Crack to road cycle from the resort to God-Knows where.... 

Yes, I do mean bicycle on the road for miles on end, complete with all the cycling gear and please note the designer 4x4 trailer with the trendy tent on top and home-made camper in the background.

It was then time to walk around the resort and find some more Camp Fucker types.

We Found the Television Fanatics. 

These plonkers decided it was a super fly idea not only to haul the television with them,

but completed the quiet bush trip with their Satelite Dish.  Hell, we'll even put up a 1970's floral umbrella to keep it cool!?

So much for a relaxing weekend away from home -

Why Bother???

Another Satelite Dish Camp Fucker! 

They place was crawling with them...

Then we came across this guy, he was obviously a Vehicle Fanatic.

Clearly incredibly proud of his particular mode of transportation...

with his bright red tractor with sun canopy and bright blue trailer!

It turns out his rivetting job was to drive around the camp site and pick up all the rubbish

(in his designer Jeep T-shirt, if you please)

Don't you love a guy who dresses for work...

When I initially walked past this next caravan of Camp Fuckers, I couldn't believe what I saw! 

Unfortunately there were too many family members sitting in a semi-circle outsite for me to take an inconspicuous pic at the time....but picture this....

All the adults were sitting outside while they baby was strapped into the pram parked about 6 inches from the blaring television screen.  WTF?  Digital baby sitter. 

Not only that, placed in the middle of the semi-circle of giggling Camp Fuckers, was a naked toddler happily splashing in a bucket of water. 

The resort has four different pools, people and your child is swimming in a bucket??

I decided to walk back this way and see if I could try my luck again at getting a shot...but this time their caravan and tent appeared empty but the television was still blaring!

I have loads more Camp Fucker stories to tell....

of women in full make up jobs - lipliner, lipgloss, fake eyelashes, the works! 

Who goes camping with their make up bag? 

I spotted more Female Camp Fuckers in the abultion blocks primping themselves to perfection with hairdriers and flatening irons, eye lash curlers and tooth whitening kits...I kid you not.

There were teenagers posing in short skirts and cropped tops, dangling earings and shoes with heels

*sigh*

Why pretend to like it?

All of these Camp Fakers, I mean Fuckers should just stay at home and go clubbing for feks sake.