We arrived in EL on Monday, 24th...picked up our hire car before heading to Mark’s family home, where we kicked off the week with yet another delicious braai with the family and yet MORE eating (not to mention peacan nut pie)! The weather was great and we sat around the fire catching up.
Tuesday started off as nice lazy day for me, having a little lie in while Mark and his dad headed out to look at houses. Mark, Sue and I then headed to the jewellery store in the hope of designing rings for myself and my sister (with the semi-precious stones - our birthstones – which we had acquired whilst on honeymoon in Sri Lanka). After much deliberation we decided on a design and set the process in motion in order for the rings to be ready for us to pick up on Thursday!
That evening we headed out for dinner, to East London’s hotspot (and Sue and Giff’s favourite place)...the CASINO! I think PE’s casino needs to get on the bandwagon with all the deals/discounts the restaurants and movies have to offer at Hemingways. We ate at a nice curry restaurant before trying our luck at the casino...but the 10c machines just weren’t paying out!
The next morning we headed out to pick up our friend Shaz (she read the poem at our wedding) and their new addition baby Kayla! Kayla obviously knew The Woods were coming to SA for a visit, and arrived a little early into the world to ensure she could meet us! Shaz and Kayla were at the clinic, getting Kayla (just 2 weeks old) weighed (she had picked up 220g since her birth on 11 May). Within the first 5 minutes of meeting Kayla...Shaz handed her to me to hold while she got her goods together...no time to over think it, and after a few minutes of holding her I finally relaxed as I realised there was nothing to be nervous about, as she was obviously on her best behaviour for her nervous Aunty Lu!
All packed up and ready to go, we headed out to meet her proud Pops Baz (our Bestman from our wedding) at Haga Haga. A couple of toots, some pizzas and a good old chinwag at Ninky Noo’s, we headed down to their house near the beach. Honestly you couldn’t ask for a better spot...the Rice’s definitely have it made when it comes to places to live! Absolutely beautiful!
The boys got the fire going for the potjie, which cooked through the afternoon while we sat around catching up. The presents from all the London Aunties came out, and even those items of clothes that were specifically for premature babies, we discovered after her bath, were still too big! She is just so tiny!
Before we knew it, it was food time yet again...the potjie was absolutely divine! With Kayla in bed while we ate and chatted away, the baby monitor on the coffee table, we kept hearing a few little baby noises throughout the evening...and at first nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary...until at one point a noise, not too different from Kayla’s little noises came from a direction not even remotely in the direction of her room or
even the baby monitor. Craig was however out of the room at this point, so we just put it down to him. Not too long after the first noise we heard it again. Craig was yet again out of the room when it happened, so didn’t quite believe us, but nevertheless turned over a basket of shoes near the door in the direction it was coming from, looked behind and in the kist that was next to the shoes to see if we could find anything that could possibly be making the noise...but nothing! Quite some time later, the noise happened again...and yet again Craig was out of the room when it happened. I grabbed the baby monitor to make sure it wasn’t coming from there and Mark went to check on Craig to see if it was him...it wasn’t! So yet again we tipped the basked of shoes and shook each shoe out...and there it was a FROG... trapped in a takkie!
The next morning we awoke to the sound, this time of crashing of the waves and even although it didn’t look sunny outside it was absolutely boiling - a berg wind had blown in overnight! The boys kitted up to go fishing and at the last minute I decided to join them. Some rock climbing later they finally decided on the ‘perfect’ spot and I just watched as they made their way out to the edge most point of the rocks...after a couple of unsteady footings getting themselves in place to cast, the water came crashing through almost knocking them from their posts...so the spot was short lived! We packed from there and moved in search of a new spot...a bit of back tracking and soon enough another ‘good’ spot was settled on. Not even 2 minutes after the first cast off and Craig had hooked his first fish of the day. However, not quite big enough to feed the 5 of us for lunch, he decided to throw it back. A few more uneventful casts and a couple of lost hooks and sinkers later I decided to make my way back to the house leaving them to do their thing!
Kayla and I had a good few successful holding sessions...before the boys came back empty handed. Once they were all cleaned up, the next fire was started in preparation for yet more food...lunch! Another delicious braai, but not before Uncle Mark held little Kayla for the first time.
It was at this point that the Rice's asked us if we would be godparents to little Kayla Ann Rice, which we gladly accepted.
Our time in Haga came to an end and we headed back to East London were I met up with an old friend of mine Clair for a quick catch up and who is halfway through her first pregnancy (it is definitely baby season) with a little boy, who will be named Riley Broedelet.
We then headed back to the Attwood Family home for yet another braai with family and friends.
No comments:
Post a Comment