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| 2007-10-21 |
domenica 21 ottobre 2007
Who says you can't....
Who says you can't get good Italian food outside of Italy...
while there is more than an element of truth to that, we have discovered that it isn't the absolute truth. Take Cape Town, south Africa, every day with an airplane arrives at CPT with a shipment of Italian goodness, including fresh buffalo mozzarella and even prosciutto crudo. We even discovered a small catering business that has imported the machinery to make fresh tagliatelle.
lunedì 8 ottobre 2007
Bianca's Ballet photos
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| Artscape - Cape Town |
martedì 2 ottobre 2007
A whale of a time!
This is the stuff you only see on the discovery channel. The whales are awesome and huge, if you look closely at one of the photos of the whales you will see a shark by the shore. Sharks are our friends apparently and they don't mean us harm - one little statistic, more people die of toasters each year then sharks. :)Anyways we went up to Hermanus on the western coast
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| 2007_10_01 |
giovedì 20 settembre 2007
8th yrs... has it really been that long?
Well, God certainly has been good to us. I can't emphasis this point enough, if God tells you to do something, no matter how impossible it seems (say, for example, he tells you to pick up your family and move to South Africa!), go for it and you won't regret it. On to our anniversary account. We had a wonderful anniversary, we ate at an Italian restaurant called Mamma Roma owned by a wonderful Italian lady named Christina originally from Bergamo. We went with a fish theme for the meal and Pinot Grigio, exquisite.
The restaurant is situated on the face of some mountains, and fog rolled in just towards the end of the meal which took us right back to the poetic fog of the Po valley, felt very much like the Verona fog. We then spent the night in a four star hotel named the Straightway overlooking the Helderberg Bay, absolutely stunning. Unfortunately, I thought that I would take some pictures just before leaving the Hotel, but more fog rolled in right after breakfast around 9 AM, but I'll see if I can find some other photos I have of the bay. AH... and most were taken with my cell phone, so excuse the quality.
domenica 16 settembre 2007
venerdì 31 agosto 2007
TIA "This is Africa"
"This is Africa", or so they say. Anywho, here is a regular tow truck :) the photo below is in a PRIMARY SCHOOL! Only goes up to 6 years old. LOL. I am, however, recommending a book that I just read to everyone who has the smallest changes happening in their lives.
It's called, "Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson. It takes roughly 15-20 minutes to read, and when you start out your thinking, "this is so stupid it's like a kids story about a mice in a maze trying to find cheese!", but by the end, you aren't thinking of the cheese and the mice, just your own life. It's great!! The only think i can compare it to is Jesus' parables for simplicity in getting across the deepest lessons. All i can say is check it out!
giovedì 30 agosto 2007
August Newsletter
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| Volunteer work |
If anyone is interested in knowing exactly what it is we are doing down here in South Africa, or A(n)zania as it will soon be called (but not before the 2010 world cup), you can click on the picture link to the right which describes our latest Project updates. There is almost too much to do, with almost half of the country earning less then €120 a month. they also say they will have an 'army' of children orphans because of AIDS. In South Africa an estimated 5.5 million people are estimated to have the virus, including about 240,000 children set to rise to 700,000 within the next 10 years.
In the African continent's economic powerhouse, South Africa, 800 to 900 people every day are dying from Aids. The country holds the dubious record of having five million HIV/Aids sufferers: the highest number in the world, an infection rate of 21.5 per cent.
Click here for the link if you haven't done so on the picture yet: http://mikeandliz.googlepages.com/SeptemberNewsletter.pdf
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