Gavin's Going Away Dinner

On tuesday evening the family gathered at a Chinese Restaurant in Bruma to get together before Gavin starts his new job in Cape Town.

Gavin and Louise

The delicious food

Bryan and Yvonne

Cynthia, Lyn and Gavin

BBBRRRRR............

South Africa is in the grip of a really nasty cold front that has seen 7 of the 9 provinces experiencing snowfall.

In some areas whole towns have been cut off and many of the major highways are closed. ( The N3 between Villiers to Howick has been closed completely as the snow had caused trucks to get stuck in the thick snow up Van Reenen's Pass )

This is the warning on the weather page

Here are some photos from around the country

Warden

Volksrust

Ermelo

Heilbron

Majuba

Cathedral Peak

Nottingham Road

Natal Midlands

Hog's Back

Eastern Cape

Queenstown

Eastern Cape

Queenstown

Karoo

Golden Gate

This was taken on Van Reenen's Pass. You can see the string of trucks that are snowed in.

Here is a video clip from Van Reenan's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNfF3I-QT4M&feature=related

No snow in Joburg but I can assure you IT'S FREEZING!!!!!!!!

                                   

My Birthday Weekend

For my birthday we invited the family around for lunch on the 3rd. 

We had a delicious veggie and meat casserole and apple strudel for dessert.

Maryann, Leslie, Dennis, Bryan, Yvonne, Cynthia and Lyn.

Aunty Yvonne gave me these beautiful roses. They are a soft yellow

but as buds they have a soft green tinge

Kitsie just likes to "sit and smell the flowers"

On my birthday, I got totally spoilt

I got a Kodak Easyshare M575 digital camera from Mommy, Lyn and Alan.

It has an awesome feature of taking a photo, uploading it to Facebook and - thanks to facial recognition software - will tag the people in the photo with the click of a button - very cool!!!!

Thank you all for making my birthday so special.