Today was
back to ‘work’ after a nice, relaxing
weekend. The constant, fine drizzle continued for most of Saturday morning and
we were all indoors finding things to keep ourselves busy with. Dieter put
another shelf in Ryan and Jed’s cupboard, Ouma built Aimee and Ethan a little
house under the dining room table (using sheets/blankets for walls) and they
played for hours in and around it. At times I was the ‘shop-keeper’ for Ethan
and Aimee’s game, but mostly I was reading magazines/newspapers/pamphlets. Jed
put down the knitting needles and tried some crochet for the first time since
we’ve been here and Ryan was re-organising his clothes cupboard in between the
odd job assisting Dieter or Oupa fixing things.
Aimee, Ethan
and I made a chocolate cake together and we dug into it soon after waking from
a long afternoon nap. Then we took a walk down to the local Spar and back – it
was good to browse around the supermarket and compare prices and variety of
food stuff. In the evening we watched a couple of videos with the children. ‘The
Pebble and the Penguin’ was Ethan and Aimee’s treat, and Ryan and Jed laughed
their way through ‘Beautiful People’. I
couldn’t stay awake though and left after about half of the 2nd
video and went to sleep!
Yesterday we
visited Liberty Church, who relate to NCMI. We had visited the church 6 years
ago when we were here last and really enjoyed it, so we thought we’d start our
church search there. The welcome was wonderful and it was nice to be in a
bigger church again (there were about 160 people). A small band of 4 musicians
lead us in worship, which was vibrant and very Jesus-honouring, it was great.
The children (and I!) all visited the Sunday School while Dieter sat and
listened to the sermon which ended in the presentation of some new deacons. It
was not long at all, and a lot happened in that time. We didn’t stay for coffee
afterwards, opting to leave in the lull just after the meeting ended, which
isn’t great as we didn’t meet or speak to anyone, but I think we’d done about
as much as we could for the day.
Ouma cooked
up a storm for lunch yesterday – and I think I heard Jed say about half a dozen
times that it was absolutely delicious! We all thought so too! The chocolate
cake was all finished by late yesterday afternoon as we shared the last 3rd
of it with some friends who popped in for tea.
It was an
early night for all the children after a weekend full of Wii, DVDs and much
running around outside in the garden which gave Dieter and I a chance to watch
a video together in the evening. We were trying desperately to keep awake to
watch it till the end, but really did enjoy it. (We watched ‘The Score’ with
Robert De Niro!) And that was our weekend, done and dusted!
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