After waking up and falling asleep countless times throughout the night, I eventually got up just before 5am and went through to the lounge to find Dan on the mattress in front of the TV watching the election progress through one eye. I cuddled up with him and watched the coverage And half slept. At around 5:30am the tv shut off, Dan thought it was my fault but it turned out to be a power cut! So much for watching the coverage right up until one of the candidates was voted president. We went to sleep on the floor till the power came back on at 8am and we turned on the news to see that Obama had won!!! Hurray for the democrats and all intelligent people! We unwrapped our Swazi glass champagne flutes and celebrated with the bottle of J C Le Roux that we have saved from Waterberry Hill.
After eating bacon and eggs and watching Romney's concession speech and Obama's victory speech a few times on Sky news we both showered and got ready for the day. Because we had now eaten almost of the bread we bought we walked out of the resort gates and just down to the petrol station and shop. The shop looked really closed and we didn't feel like buying any bread from the street vendors so we carried on down the road past some cows and calves. I had hoped we were heading in the right direction to find an old shop we used to love, called Santa's Workshop. We couldn't find it. And it turns out that it no longer exists, but what we did discover were some old fishing pools that Jessica and I caught trout in when we were little, and we're forced to hold them under the slimy gills for photographs :D
We walked back to the resort and went to explore the garden and lounge areas that we hadn't yet seen. They were just as I remembered and even smelt the same because they had pine log fires going in the huge fire places. We walked down the hotel room corridors and I told Dan the story from when Jess and I first came to Troutbeck when we were early young and we would run up and down the passageway knocking on people's doors and hide :D It was quite a warm day some settled down in the sun lounge overlooking the mountains and lake and I had a double thick vanilla milkshake that was divine! Dan went to ask them about Internet which we were told was $10 per day per code, but as we left he remembered we were timeshare guests and that meant the Internet was free for us! We went back to the house for a lunch of bacon rolls And to watch a little tv. We considered going on a walk around the golf course but decided to go back to reception instead to use some Internet.
After uploading a lot of backlogged blog posts since Kruger, and checking various Facebook and email accounts we went back home for a braai. The view from our porch is spectacular, so we got the fire going and settled down to watch the sun set. After the coals had died down and the boerwors was on the fire, it became clear that it wouldn't have enough strength to cook the sausage the whole way through as it was quite thick. I turned on the ovens grill and while the wors finished cooking I put some carrots on too. We rounded off our meal with a couple of beers and a savanna and watched tv till we went to sleep.
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