You Want Some Cheese with that Wine?

Every lass loves a glass of wine, right?

Well, South Africa has the best wines and the most awesome wine routes.  

The most famous of all - The Stellenbosch Wine Route was founded in 1971 and has been promoting its members for more than 30 years. Today the new Stellenbosch American Express® Wine Routes represent more than 200 wine and grape producers within the boundaries of the Stellenbosch Wine of Origin classification. 

You may start at any cellar of your choice and include as many as you like (hic) Daily wine tasting, cellar tours and sales are offered at most cellars and many of these have restaurant and picnic facilities (more hiccing and gigglin'). 

Get out yer credit cards, because wine can be purchased at the cellar door. Your purchases of any given quantity can be delivered locally or internationally. We have been preparing for your visit for more than 320 years! 

Visit the Stellenbosch Wine Route and experience the finest wines (it's wine o'clock all day long there), warm hospitality and memorable moments. 

The Greek philosopher Plato remarked : 'Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine has even been granted by the gods to man'.

Usage:  Tea gives me something to do until its acceptable to drink wine.

 

Wine, Shopping and Hair

I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless woman who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner.

I took out my wallet, got out ten dollars and asked, 'If I give you this money, will you buy wine with it instead of dinner?'

'No, I had to stop drinking years ago', the homeless woman told me.

'Will you use it to go shopping instead of buying food?' I asked.

'No, I don't waste time shopping,' the homeless woman said. 'I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive.'

'Will you spend this on a beauty salon instead of food?' I asked.

'Are you NUTS!' replied the homeless woman. I haven't had my hair done in 20 years!'

'Well, I said, 'I'm not going to give you the money. Instead, I'm going to take you out for dinner with my husband and me tonight.'

The homeless woman was shocked. 'Won't your husband be furious with you for doing that? I know I'm dirty, and I probably smell pretty disgusting.'

I said, 'That's okay. It's important for him to see what a woman looks like after she has given up shopping, hair appointments, and wine.'

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Burger Braai and Jacuzzi Party

Yesterday friends popped around with a bottle of wine to say hi.  It turned into an imprompto burger braai (aka barbeque) and jacuzzi party.  We all landed up drinking far too much wine and adding about a litre of bubble bath to our jacuzzi. 

The result was a wild party full of giggles, singing and diving into the jacuzzi bubbles!  Yes, I was diving into the jacuzzi...nutcase...

Mel and Mandy at the bar

KK rockin' on

Shaun - the quiet before the storm...

Megan rockin' on

The bubbles begins...

Then the splashing took place

The celebratory annointments

Cheers!

Disappearing men amongst the foam

The wine bottle was finished?

The girls got to splash too

The aftermath out the back door!!!

Wild and wicked it was...

Here's the Valentines Day Prezzies

The card the girls made

Inside

Hope you all had a fun Valentines Weekend too.

Friday Night Wine and Guitar Hero

I was discussing with Riaan earlier in the week that we were going to have a quiet family night on Friday. We've got such a hectic social life that sometimes I feel the need to kick back and be silly with my wee family. No others involved. (heck, no offence to my many wonderful friends but we all need some immediate family time).

We said that we were going to get pizza delivery, a bottle of wine and play Guitar Hero World Tour with Megan on drums, mum and dad on the guitars and KK on her little electric guitar (the batteries of course mysteriously dissappeared. Its one of those annoying toys that you wished you never bought). KK jammed on her little toy guitar, even though she's not really playing the game with us, she still feels part of the game and The Band.

We had fun rockin' in our Family Band.

But because it was such a chilly evening, we went for an early HOT bubble bath and then all piled into our double bed (a very tight squeeze) our bed by 8:30! Within 10 minutes, Riaan and Kaylin were snoring and Megan and I watched the final of The Bachelorette together.

Megan fell asleep half way through the programme sprawled out like a star-fish and I landed up trying to get comfy on about 6 inches of bed!! During one of the ad breaks, I carried KK and Meg through to their own beds so I could actually enjoy the ending of The Bachelorette with a little bit of comfy space and without two children's sleepy snoring noises.

I landed up in tears at the end of the show. I couldn't believe she picked Jessie instead of Jason. I was devastated and felt she'd made a HUGE mistake. What the hell was she thinking???

Then this got me thinking, why do I get so emotionally involved in these shallow, frivolous reality shows? Its quite pathetic! I just can't help myself though. I should've rather spent the time online or reading a good book.

Och well, I must admit I wouldn't be able to go cold turkey on watching my favourite reality TV shows and series'. My addiction is too far gone for that....

Is there perhaps a Reality TV Show support group I can join?

"Hi, my name is Gillian and I'm a Reality TV Show Addict. Please have mercy on my square eyes..."




Jesse Csincsak