I was so long in labour they had to shave me twice

Yesterday was a public holiday here in South Africa. Its was Human Rights Day so I invited my big sister and her clan over for a good old fashioned Souf Efrikén braai.

Unfortunately, the heavens opened up on us and it pissed with rain most of the frikken day but that didn't stop us from firing up the braai and enjoying some XBOX Kinect.

Megan, Janie, Mick, Claire and Kaylin enjoying their braai

Our newest edition to our family.  Meet Lucy

Me and Lucy-Loo-Loo

I also get a brilliant surprise in the post!  I got a parcel from fellow blogger Mr Cool aka Tom Tomoser with a lovely letter and his latest Greatest Hits CD just for me!  Thanx so much Tom - what a loverly surprise.

Our Pezulu Tree House Game Lodge experience

Our holiday to Pezulu Tree House was OUT OF THIS WORLD.  A few days away from the hussle and bussle of the city did me the world of good.  I not only got to stay in real tree house, we got to experience zebras, warthogs, giraffe and baboons right outside our balcony at our very own water hole!  What a phenominal experience. 

I got to hug a cheetah, hold a vulture on my arm, I got to ride a quad bike through an orchard and sit next to a two-month old rhino.

A wonderful experience that I will never forget.

Here's my holiday in pictures!




A Daft Scots Lass pets a two-year old Cheetah




Gorgeous ins't he?




Our Dining Area




The dirt road to Pezulu



Petting an Eagle

Standing next to an Eagle



Giraffes and warthogs from the look out point



Delilah the Leopard

The communal longue

Megan next to the 80kg Baby Rhino



Our Group



Megan on our Swing Chairs on our Private Balcony

Some of us in the rock pool

Quad Biking in the Orchard

After an hour's quadding in the orchard (half time)

Kaylin on her quad bike

Kaylin riding with Mummy

Megan riding with Daddy

Baby Rhino having a wee nap

The snake we came across on ur doorstep

Spider just outside our tree house's front door

Sunset in the Bush from our Balcony

Our TreeHouse

The girls inside the Tree House

The King Sized Beds in the Tree House with well-needed mozzie nets

A Daft Scots Lass holding a vulture

A Daft Scots Lass holding a vulture

Warthogs watching us

Wild Dogs up close!

Up Close and person with a Zebra

Local Zulu women in Pilgrim's Rest

Holiday Time

This is a lazy arsed post because I'm working at the Homemakers Expo this week and I'm completely swamped.

I do have ONE thing to look forward to.  We're booked and paid for a wee 5 day get-away in March (just after the Expo) to visit Pezulu Tree House Game Lodge

I can't wait to kick back, relax in my romantic jacuzzi bubble bath 5 meters into a tree, over-looking the animal at the water-holes in the bush.  

Ah Bliss...

I'll be happily chugging down alcoholic beverages by the truck load and sleeping in late on my king size bed listening to the lions roar.

OH Yes!

Be sure to come by tomorrow and check out my new competition.

Cooo-eeee I'm back! User Friendly Beach Holiday - That's what she said!

The long road to the seaside

I'm back in smelly, smoggy Johannesburg and just because you can't smell it doesn't mean the rest of us aren't sufferning.

I missed you guys and I missed my wee blog.

Yeeehaw!  Five days at the Natal South Coast and what a great wee holiday it was.

We arrived at about lunch time on Monday after a 7 hour drive and checked into our large beach flat. We were right on the beach and could hear the waves crashing from our balcony. 

We hardly unpacked and went around to see my mum and dad. My mum was so weak and frail she couldn't even get out of bed to greet us. She looked so pale and exhausted but I still managed to give her a long gentle cuddle, I just didn't squeeze too hard! 

Mum and Kaylin

I had waited a whole year to give her a hug and it was so worth it.

We spent most of the holiday either on the beach or at the pool or just hanging out with my folks, nattering and catching up at at their place.   I always forget how loud our family is and how much we talk. We don't stop and my accent instantly becomes thicker without me even realising it. Hubby always points this out though.

Anyhoover, I had a good chat with both of my parents individually and let them know that they need only ask me for help with anything and I'll be there.   They are not getting any younger and luckily they care for each other at at the moment, but there will come a time when one or both of them will not be able to do these things and then they will need myself and my sister to step in and help.

We are so far away from them and we'd love for them to move back to Johannesburg and be closer but they will NOT hear anything of it right now.

Dilema.

The time will come.

Nevertheless, it was a wicked wee break with loads of relaxing in the sun, playing in the surf and truck loads of special times.

Here are some of the daft pix

On the way to the beach

Palm Beach

My Dad and Kaylin

Family Shot

My Mummy

My folks.  They will be married for 46 years in January!

My Mum posing for the camera

Kaylin on the rocks at Palm Beach

Megan swinging on the big tree branch on Palm Beach

The monkeys were a twice a day occurrence at our wee beach flat

Megan and Kaylin playing in the pool

Megan riding the waves on her Boogie Board

Sandcastles

Sandcastles with Dad

My Three in the Sea

Kaylin riding the ways with her Boogie Board

The pathway from our beach flat down to Palm Beach

Fun in the car - a long 7 hour trip.