On the Roll!

We truly are on the roll! Within just days of meeting other homeschoolers here in George we’re on the go-go-go! I’m also really enjoying the adult conversation! And, these are people who can relate to a lot of my every day life, which is a huge bonus.

On Monday afternoon, during Ryan and Ethan’s football practice, a group of us Moms sat together in one car and chatted for the entire hour. Actually, we could have sat together for much longer and not have run out of topics to talk about! And I must say, everyone I’ve met so far has been very warm and friendly. I’m looking forward to getting to know them all much better.

One of the homeschooling moms (whom I haven’t met yet) arranged a get together at the Ten-pin Bowling alley last night. It is apparently usually costs around R40 per game but the local alley has a special on at the moment and we only paid R20 per person for two games! There was only one other family that arrived and they kindly invited us to share a lane with them. Had they not shared their lane with us we might have had to wait another hour before a lane became open for us to use. I had met Yannick and her daughter at the Friday get together and last night we got to meet her husband and 2 sons. (What a small world! Turns out Yannick knows friends of ours from Cyprus and Pretoria!) They are a lovely family and we had fun bowling together. 10 people playing a game in one lane does take much longer than with a smaller group and we finished just before the alley closed at 10pm.

It was a late but we had one more stop to make on the way home. Oupa and Ouma had given us some money to get some ice-cream cones and we decided to see if KFC sold some as that drive-thru was on the way home. They did – they did indeed! They call it ‘soft serve’ and it was the softest, creamiest, most delicious-ist ice-cream any of us had tasted in a looooooong time. We’ll definitely be making more stops at KFC drive-thru. (6 ice-creams cost us R17-90 ….. 6 McD’s cones in Cyprus had cost us R30-00 ….. so we’re convinced we can now eat TWICE at much ice-cream for the same price, LOL!)

Today’s been a busy day. We woke up later than usual, all feeling rather tired after our late night. I did some reading with Ryan and Jed after tidying the house and hanging up a couple of loads of washing. Just before midday René and Lucas arrived to see us. After a cuppa together and a quick ‘catch up’, René headed to the shops for a few hours while we took care of Lucas. And he’s toooo cute man. Aimee had great fun feeding him some melon after he woke up from his nap and we had lauged a lot together out on the lawn rolling the ball to each other. We’re looking forward to seeing a lot more of them now that we are living here. Friendship really is a wonderful treasure!