Early Morning

This morning was amazing. Still is amazing actually, it isn't done yet! I was woken up with a cat chewing my toes ferociously, so sadly did not get to sleep in as I wished, which I am now quite glad about. I got up at about 6:30am, to see mist closed in around the house. I let Pio out to go to work and made a coffee thinking I could just watch Heroes without him ever knowing ;-)

Well, as I sat there looking out the window in front of the laptop, I realised how beautiful it was. The sun was shining through the mist, which moving in the wind looked and felt like fine rain coming down. It was so crisp and fresh and beautiful, I opened the door to the balcony and sat in this crisp, cool breeze feeling the mist on my face as I drank my coffee. Was absolute heaven.

What a way to wake up, fresh air, cool breeze, and the ocean. It made me feel very lucky and very privileged to be able to experience that, and have these beautiful mornings that I can enjoy almost every day, and all right here on my doorstep.

The Weekend

Well, on Friday we got in our hired X-Trail (Hertz gave us an upgrade and didn't charge us for Friday afternoon or Monday morning bless their cottons, they are stars) and drove to Windhoek. We only got there at like 8:30pm - the road between Karibib and Okahandja is so bad and full of potholes that you hav to drive way below the speed limit to prevent losing tyres. They are also working on it, they have been for 6 months, and it doesn't really look like anything has been done in that time, honestly ...

We spent the night with Vicky and Tiaan - they were having a braai so we got a drink and some lamb chops for the braai and just sat around chilling and talking to everyone. Pio and I were so tired though that we mostly sat there like lemons with no energy and falling asleep on our feet, although we managed to stay up til gone 3am - have no idea where the night went, it completely flew, and I only have these vague recollections of what happened, probably because I was so tired. What did keep us mostly awake though was once most of the people had gone home we got to play King of Beers ... oh dear ... horrendous game ... and at one point ending everything with "in my pants" was just too much!

Saturday morning arrived and I woke up to Vicky and Tiaan running through the lounge - came out of this dead dead sleep to wonder what the hell they were doing up so early in a craoky sore voice - only to discover that it was after 9am already so had to drag myself up, would much rather have carried on sleeping lol. We left at about 10:30am for our drive to Botswana, it just felt like it took forever! We did find this really cool little place on the side of the road that sold Biltong - oh my goodness, it was so nice and fresh and homemade! Fabulous!

On arrival at the border post, we were both rather nervous, as my stamp of allocate days had expired, and because of the nightmare with broken cars and Pio not getting off work and Hertz not having a car for us, we were rather nervous that we would get a penalty for being late. Thank heavens though, we got chatting to the immigration lady behind the counter and she let us right through with no problems - as did the Botswana side.

We drove on into Botswana for two hours - there is nothing on that side of the border for 200 km's, so we had to just keep driving until we got to Ghanzi and found a lodge on the other side of it. Botswana is expensive!!! Tautona Lodge was very nice, although our dinner wasn't - mine was stone cold, and the T-bone steaks we had left ALOT to be desired - we were severely dissapointed as Botswana is meant to have fabulous meat and the last time we were in the country we had the best steaks I had ever eaten. So wasn't overly impressed, and as it was so expensive didn't really help. Our room was nice though, big and a really odd shape with funny windows - it was built on top of two others, so was really interesting. It also overlooked the swimming pool, which you couldn't see because of the funny windows lol.

The return trip was fine as well - we left early as we were being attacked by horse flies and couldn't stand it anymore lol, so got to the border post around 11 / 12pm and went through without a problem again. So once again my passport is sorted for the moment and I can then move on to applying for my next visa. Once back in Windhoek we spent the evening with Dru and Silke - they have such a cute little house and the most gorgeous kitten - Bundy. It was really nice to be able to chill and watch movies and do nothing with them and get an early night. Bundy played until he was exhausted i think then KO'd, but was up and down through the night, on and off and on and off lol. He is gorgeous.

Monday morning I got up early and sat chatting to Dru and Silke about the gardens and plans, until we got ready to leave, stopped by Vicky and Tiaan to fetch the drive, and then hit the road home. Did some banking when we got here and spent the rest of the day chilling at home and watching movies. Got an early night and am meant to be fresh and full of energy this morning ... although I don't seem to be ...