We woke up quite late this morning, after all the napping yesterday afternoon it was unexpected but lovely!! A very hot and muggy morning greeted us whilst I had a cup of tea and some risks on the porch. We drove over to the homestead in time to have some breakfast with Gary as he came back from the farm, Mike and Evette had eaten earlier. Breakfast was delicious, divine seeded bread, which I had with jam and cheese, and Dan had his with some fried eggs, tomatoes and onion, it was a delicious meal as usual!! Our clothes were also all handing outside and were also being ironed inside so we felt very lucky! We then sat on the porch with Evette and chatted for awhile, whilst feeling very sorry for poor Tess, their Jack Russell who is very very heavily pregnant and clearly not enjoying herself at all!
Evette and I also took a walk to the staff houses, as there are two girls there that are leaving, and Evette was telling them to be ready by 2:15 to be driven the 10kms into Graaff-Reinet. Dan and I have been sitting on the porch, enjoying the sunshine, and writing blog posts in the mean time. Lunch is in about an our or so, and I'm so excited for is as it is Portuguese chicken, yummy!! Our lunch did turn out to be divine, I could have finished off the remaining two pieces of chicken, but I restrained myself, I do have a wedding dress to try to fit into after all :D
After lunch Dan and I drove into Graaff-Reinet so he could see the town. We parked the car in front of the town church and walked down the main street, stopping first in a very large antique shop. The shop is located in a farm house dating to 1814 and contains a room where the royal family of the UK had tea during their 1947 visit to Graaff-Reinet. The picture of the strange looking cake is actually the exact same cake that was made to commemorate the house owners 50th wedding anniversary, in 1902!!! I'll bet it doesn't taste so good now. We then walked down a very picturesque street to Reinet house, where the founders of the town lived. We had a peek inside but will go back with mum after the wedding. Our next stop is probably my favourite shop in the whole town, a quaint place that sells the kind of things I would adore in my house, and their roof is covered in thorns, as you can see!! We bought a couple of gifts there and then headed back to the car.
We drove up another street to go find the Spar, where we bought some savannah's and castle's to replenish the ones we had all drank at the Holmes' house, and some haloumi to try grill on the braai. Once we arrived back at the house we walked with Mike to go check on one of the pieces of equipment, and on the way back bumped into his Granny and Gramps, who were on their way to have a look at the onions Mike is growing. We sat on the stoep, me getting devoured by mosquitoes until I put on some repellant, and had some drinks. Granny and Gramps tried to leave after a couple of drinks but we convinced them to stay for dinner. I tried to grill the haloumi on the braai but it was rubbish stuff and did not crisp up on the outside but instead just melted through the grill. Oh well! Luckily I was not cooking dinner and so we had wonderful boerwors rolls and the left over salads and ribs from the day before, before retiring for the evening to Magnificent View :D
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