After a really light breakfast of fruit and fruit juice, Dan and I decided to take a drive up the road from Troutbeck to see of we could find Santa's Workshop, which I didn't yet know no longer existed. We drove for around 10kms and found nothing at all, so we turned around and drove back to the Spar we tried to walk to yesterday. We asked when we got there if it was open and we were directed to the entrance of another building which turned out to be the shop, not where we had originally thought it was! Oops :) It turned out that the Spar was abysmally stocked, only a few bags of cips, some rice, cooking oil and breakfast cereal were basically it's only products. I did manage to get a chomp chocolate bar for an expensive $1, they are usually about half that in SA.
The little stalls outside the Spar did sell bread which we bought for bacon rolls for tomorrow breakfast and we decided not to get the ridiculously strong cigarettes for Dan. The bar at reception apparently sold cigarettes so we went and sat in their lounge with tea and coffee, using the internet till the bar opened. We managed to chat to Mum, Jess and to Roy on skype and arranged to phone Roy at 9:30 our time this evening so we could say hi to Snuggie and Mo :D At about half twelve we were super hungry and moved to the sun lounge to eat lunch. I had told Dan that we could not come and stay at Troutbeck and not eat any trout, so we both ordered the Nyanga Trout with chips. In our house the menu says that every timeshare guest that eats lunch or dinner with the hotel gets a free soft drink, but they are no longer doing that and had neglected to change their signs, so we had to pay for our drinks.
While at lunch we started to hear amazing claps of thunder, and saw a storm making its way over the mountain towards us. We headed home to start a fire and whilst it rained we put together ideas for the monopoly board we have. Dan came up with the brilliant idea that we should design and make our very own monopoly board about ur trip, completely customised to what we did and where we went. The properties will all be places we have stayed at, the chances and community chests will be things that actually happened to us on the trip (like, your car has blown a tire, pay $100 to get a new one) and the go to jail will be get stuck at a border post. After chatting for quite a while about the ideas we have for the game, I decided that I wanted to go on a walk around the golf course when it stopped raining. Dan wouldn't come with me, so I went alone. The walk was really beautiful, I went over the hill in front of our house, to the right and back towards the houses over the bridge that separates the timeshare's lake from the hotel's lake.
On the road back up to the house I went to where they cut firewood and took some more kindling as we had used all of ours up trying to keep the fire alive during the rain. We had another short power cut when it got dark, and we frantically tried to find the candles so that we could see. Thankfully their generator kicked in 10 minutes later, and we went to get more kindling. We watched tv in front of ur fire till it was 9pm when we walked down in the pitch dark, because Dan didn't want to drive, to the hotel reception. We played on the Internet waiting for Roy to get home. His meeting ran longer than he had anticipated and the reception wanted to close which ment that we just missed him :( Unfortunately we packed up and went back to the house to tgo to sleep, unfortunately not having spoken to him or the kittens.
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