Our trip to Jo’burg: We took James back to Joburg and decided to stay a couple of extra days since Monday was the Reed Dance, where annually the King takes another wife, and Wednesday was Independence day here. So we took some of our good friends, Charles and Kristen with us and went for a mini get away after a long winter (summer in USA). We got there Monday, and I had another baby dr. apt. and all it well, he is right on target for Dec. 15, so we will see. The only troubles that I am having are my legs, luckily my mom was able to send out a pair of surgical support hose with 20-30 compression, boy are those fun getting on. Let’s just say it took Doug and I and about 10 minutes to get them on. . . .
We took James to the airport and sent him back to the states, the kids were pretty bummed as they love having family here and we have been so blessed our first term having so much family come out for some reason or another. So Tuesday we shopped and ate and relaxed, my kind of fun, sometimes you forget what that is like and with South Africa having major malls just like home you almost forget you are in Africa! Wed. we of course did some more shopping and found a nice rug to go under my dining room table since my chairs are getting destroyed from the tile (yeah)! We then proceeded on to take the church projector in to some place we had three different directions to, after making a few wrong turns and finding the unmarked building we realized it was almost 4 o’clock. We decided to stay and extra night since South Africa is not the safest of places to be esp. in the dark. So we found this new shopping center and ate at this amazing new restaurant called Cappuccinos, it was wood fired pizza and it was great. We felt like we were in America. Across the way was this Espresso restaurant places where they had this section for kids to roll out dough and they cooked the cookies for them.
We headed back to our hotel and came across a lady who had just been robbed. We saw this man running across the street and then another one following him. As we looked where they were coming from we saw a lady standing outside of her car with glass everywhere. Doug and Charles jumped out and I got in the drivers seat and locked the doors. They sent us to the hotel (which was across the street) to call the police. Come to find out this man was pretending like he was begging and came up to the car, saw the ladies purse on her lap, busted the window, grabbed her purse and ran. Her husband got out and ran after the man. There were 2-3 other guys on different corners of the street that were coming towards her until Doug and Charles got out to help her. These other guys then backed of and a car came up and at least one of them got in and drove off, so who knows what else could have happened. There is a lot of car theft in Africa. So all is well now, the husband somehow retrieved the purse and they left. Crazy world we live in. We headed back to Swaziland and had the worst boarder experience so far, oh well, life goes on!
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