El and I both had bouts of gastric flu this weekend and we had our NZ cousin Hannah and her new husband staying with us… so it was pretty hectic! All in all, though, it was a rocking weekend
because we got to spend a lot of time just chilling and catching up on the last 9 years or so – 
which was awesome. Another new addition to our family arrived last week – a baby tortoise… it’s the cutest thing ever!Monday morning El took Roo to the vet to have her kittyrectimy. We had borrowed a fancy cat transporter vibe from Heather and Owen and on the way to the vet Roo managed to get out of it! There was one catch missing along the side and she managed to force it open far enough to break the second catch and push the door off… that’s determination! When El got back from school in the afternoon we went to fetch her and she was highly cantankerous to say the least, the drugs weren’t kind to her temperament. She was fine on the way home but when we took her to our room she swore and moaned whenever we tried to pick her up to move her. We decided that she would recover best with some alone-time so closed her in our bedroom for the evening. I got the Weber fired up and we had a braai for supper, the weather was stunning.
On Tuesday I tried something new with my two guitar students, I combined their lessons to try and get them to compete with one another. It worked fabulously and they seem lank amped to practice for next week now. El’s colleague is still off on personal issue reasons and so school is still pretty hectic. They’re also in the process of organizing a fashion show so she’s busy busy busy. I’m going to be operating the sound desk and now they’ve also asked me to source all the music… and the show is in a week’s time! But it’ll all be good fun.
Hannah and Caleb arrived on Friday afternoon and shortly after we sat down to have some coffee El started feeling very nauseous… it was quite sudden and unexpected and we thought it may have been food poisoning or something. She got progressively worse as the evening wore on so we stayed in and watched a DVD. The weather was also very miserable so it worked out quite well actually. We had planned to go to Monte Casino on Saturday and check out their birdpark with the cousins (Stu and Sarah you remember the bird park in the yellow car…) but the weather was just as miserable as the day before, really bucketing down. El was not any better on Saturday morning so I went to the chemist and took H&C with me. When I got to the dispensary the pharmo told us that gastric flu was rife and they were having loads of people coming in with the same symptoms that El had – upset tummy and aching joints and muscles. They told me that I had to get her to a doctor for a drip, which seemed a little intense to me, lover of needles and hospital stuff, so I phoned the family nurse (me mom) and she said plenty of fluids, some painkillers and TLC should to the trick. So we stocked up on fruit juices, coke and lucozade and headed home. El spent the whole day resting but joined us in the lounge for a movie in the evening. Caleb brought a copy of his band’s demo and I was lank impressed with it – they’re called Fly by Wire and sound (in my opinion) like Foo Fighters, which is a good thing :). They are very tight on the recording and have a full sound, keep an eye out for them in the shops!!
We introduced the New Zealanders to the SA braai on Saturday night and El was feeling much better. We decided to skip church and try for Monte’s again if the weather was good. The weather was stunning but then I woke up with the GF… so that was bad bad bad luck! I agreed to brave a breakfast as long as we were close to some public facilities so we drove through to Clearwater and had a great meal together. In the afternoon we had invited some people around for a braai so I asked Gabba to take the position of braaimaster so that I could sleep. When we got home from Clearwater I was absolutely finished and crashed for a couple of hours. It was great to see Gabba and Yvette again, we haven’t been able to hook up for a couple of weeks so I was glad that we could spend the afternoon with them (even if it wasn’t that long for me… but El enjoyed the afternoon).
I couldn’t get out of work on Monday and neither could El, although both of us still felt pretty grotty. I got to jam a bit with Caleb before we took them off to the airport for the stay in CT. We were sad to see them go as we got along really well and had so much in common, hopefully we’ll be able to catch them on their way home at the end of November.
We wish you all the best of God’s presence and blessing in your weeks
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