SA Christmas 2008

The Christmas Festivities began a couple of weekends ago when Mike and I with a few friends went up the West Coast for Sunday Lunch. Served on the dunes we were served with endless seafoods including prawns & calamari strips, preceded by a great fish bisque and then to finish the afternoon coffee and Koeksisters.
Christmas Eve:
Mike and I were invited to celebrate with The Roeds Danish Style in Hout Bay. After an eventful relaxing time in garden with ponies and boules we were entertained by the childrens nativity play.
The adults dinner was served in the evening, the most amazing pork cooked in the Weber BBQ followed by Danish Rice Pudding. We all then had a couple of small gifts and Mikael played us the piano while we sang a couple of christmas carols.




Christmas Day

We were joined by Patrick and Stephen for our christmas lunch of Ham and Turkey. We were given a Wii by Mum & Pete so we had a few games of bowling and golf.
Thank you to everyone for all our other gifts it was nice to have something to open on Christmas morning.





Boxing Day
Mike and Stephen went surfing in the morning, then Mike and I went to watch James Bond at the Waterfront Cinema.

Today
Walked to the bakery down the road to buy bread for our ham sandwiches, stopped off at the new pancake restaurant in our building for coffee. Now just filling in form to try and extend our visas. This afternoon is the official opening of the new restaurant and pancake place downstairs so going down to do some tasting.

Merry Christmas
Mike & Nic
x

Sun, Beach & Movies

Now the summer has set it, it is great living in Cape Town. Friday after work a few us went to Clifton beach to watch the sunset with Pizzas. There was then a big screen set-up to watch a surf movie when the sun had gone down. There must have bee a couple of thousand people on the beach watching the movie.

Saturday awoke to a beautiful very hot day, between Mike working we took a drive to our recycling place which also happens to have a second hand book shop - so I stocked up. We met Patrick & Thabo for a couple of drinks at the bar across the road from our apartment. At 5pm we went to friends for a braai, then was pulled away early due to work, but managed to watch a movie.

Sunday - another baking day in Cape Town (as well as today, the aircon has been on in the office the whole day - usually I have to turn it off as my hands get cold). We went for our Sunday coffee to read the newspapers at the Waterfront then back to the flat, where i spent the afternoon on the balcony reading my book whilst mike worked inside. As soon as the sun hit our balcony I had to come in and run to the pool to cool down, and had a lovely swim.

Only 2 weeks left at work, before the office semi closes for Chirstmas.