We woke up early and went to Addo Elephant National Park which was a 30 min drive up the hills from PE. It was only R40 each as Garth got us in as South Africans! We spent 6 hours driving 60km around the park and we saw loads of warthogs and loads of elephants - some very close indeed! We didn't see any lions, but we did see zebras, kudu, jackals, and lots more! It was great to see healthy elephants in the wild (unlike Thailand) and there were lots of baby eleph...

We had a very lazy morning and cooked ourselves fish and veg for lunch. We spent the afternoon at Robyn's watching rubbish TV then enjoyed a lively dinner at Andrew and Cora's! I won my first ever game of settlers!

I was glad to hear that granny's eye operation went well! :) We had a lazy morning and hot some soup which we ate at Robyn's. We then went to see Monsters University in 3D which was nice! We had an hours break before heading to Mr and Mrs Smiths for dinner which was just lovely! They are Neil's (Garth's good friend) parents who had helped Garth financially through uni. There house was amazing!!! They fed us amazing food and wine. Their daughter Carey and her h...

I had a lye in after Wendy had gone to work and went to the Rautenbach's just before lunch. We then went with Robyn to The Yate's home where Lillian works (Mrs Yates told us how last year her lung collapsed 3 times and the operated on her by scraping off the outside layer of her lung so it would heal and mould itself to the ribcage and no longer collapse with NO PAIN KILLERS!!) and we took her out to Nando's for lunch. She had never been to Nando's before and I w...

We arrived at the Rautenbach's at 9.30. Craig was working and at a meeting do the rest of us went to a shop called The Lemon Tree which was just lovely. It was a home store that had lovely 'aged' items. There was a room at the back which was full of sale items and we all went a bit crazy! I ended up buying a lovely plate and a different tea cup and saucer for R7.50!!!! I got a glass bottle to put bubble bath in at home and a little teddy bear for hope. We bought ...