First thing on the cards this morning was to head to the house for another amazing breakfast. As soon as we got there I realised that someone had made mocca cubes, my absolute favourite thing in the world!! Turns out that Mike and Evette had made them together earlier that morning, so into the fridge they went to set. We all sat down to enjoy a yummy breakfast of fresh scones jam and cheese, and I need to ask Evette for the recipe for those scones, I have never tasted something so light and delicious in my
life! We started without Gary as he was working on something in the study, so I plowed through the rest of the cheese for my scone without realising he hadn't had any yet! I felt so bad that he had to have the cheese slices because I had devoured all the grated cheese!
Dan and I sat down in the lounge to watch some tv whilst Mum used Facebook, Gary and Mike were on the farm and Evette had a meeting in town. The movie we ended up watching was actually really good, a woman gets convicted of a murder she didn't commit, so her husband plans how to break her out and escape with their son to Venezuela! Dan then used Facebook and tried to tag as many people as possible in his dads 474 photographs from the week they were here for the wedding. Evette came home and Mike and I helped her to make nachos for lunch. The nachos were amazing, she had used Doritos tortilla chips which have such a delicious flavour! We also had samosas and sweet chilli with lunch.
Gary called the mechanic again to find out if he was coming today, and it turned out that he woud not be able to make it. So Gary very kindly rang around to all the mechanics in town that he knew, and one called Koebus agreed to see us. We drive straight there and met Koebus who looked a lot like Santa Claus! He took the car on a short test drive with us, and diagnosed a misfire in the engine, and said the transmitting fluid was ok as the gearbox was not slipping. He told us straight away that we would most likely need to go to Port Elizabeth to have the issue diagnosed as the engine was electronic, so he could not figure out what was wrong as he didnt have the correct equipment. He took the cover and top off the engine in any case, I case it was fairly obvious that the issue was mechanical and not electronic, in which case he could fix it for us there.
He unclipped and re clipped all of the fuel injectors and could not see any issues, so he and a worker of his cleaned the seal for the engine and reattached it. Dan and I, grasping at straws obviously, had looked on google and land rovers of a similar age and mileage had all had the same issue, so we asked Koebus if he could have a look at it. Before he could even get there however he had turned the engine on, and the problem was fixed!!!! We think one of the fuel injectors had probably become dislodged when the wheel popped and the car was juddering so much. He refused for us to pay him so we asked his worker what he liked to drink and we walked to Spar and bought him a case of beer and a box of chocolates for the other mechanic. Thank goodness it's fixed!!!
We walked to clicks to buy me some hairspray and then went home for a braai. As it hadn't been raining we could use the fire, so Gary started up the fire and we all sat outside and enjoyed some droervors and hanepoort. On the menu for dinner was a beef stir fry, so once the coals were at the perfect temperature, they pulled out a stir fry pan on legs :D South Africans braai all the time you see, so they have all the apparatus necessary to cook basically anything on the braai. The stir fry was amazing, and was served with noodles and rice. Daddy phoned us on the landline too, I had forgotten to give him the new cell phone number so he couldn't try us on that. After dinner we had tea and coffee and I was able to eat some of those delicious mocca cubes, I'm so lucky!!! :D
Great to "catch up!" Having lived the 11th of October with you, I see that you kept it upbeat!
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