Ode to toasters...

Referring to a previous post about sharks being 'our friends, not food', we just had a surfer 'taken', as the locals call it, on the beach by our house. 'I recant' in my comparison of more more people being killed by toasters then sharks... I now feel, after seeing the photos in the local newspaper, 'hurray to all those who go by toaster, it is more honorable then by shark!" - Cheers and God Bless

Chelsea flower fair wannabee...

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An imitation of the London Chelsea flower show, I met with the director 'Sue' who also helps organize the London flower show and she was quite generous showing us around and giving us complimentary tickets for the whole school. It was quite spectacular, but by far where we spent the most time was the 'checkers' tent where there was a food and wine tasting competition. It was great! take care ya'll...

Who says you can't....

Who says you can't get good Italian food outside of Italy...

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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.

Bianca's Ballet photos

Artscape - Cape Town

So Bianca has started attending Ballet classes courtesy of the grandma... many thanks! We took her and Brooke to the ballet at the art scape center in cape town, she throughly enjoyed it. Click on the photo to the Left to lead to the album. Enjoy your week!

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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on Sunday and the whales were putting on an amazing show. It's a beautiful place, most recommended if you visit South Africa!

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.

New Album up...

2007_09_10-Various photos From August and September