28.12.07
Family done
Cape Town – 13/12/07
John (Ruth’s husband) arrives today, early. In fact he phoned and kept bloody phoning at 6am. Ruth had already gone to pick him up at the airport leaving me and K in the house.
The house phone had a damned annoying ringtone too. So blearily stumbling around trying to find the bloody thing. And then it stops so back to bed. And then it rings again, so stumble around again and then it stops. Repeat until seriously pissed off.
We know it’s John, we can’t do anything to help, Ruth’s on her way. What good does waking us up do? I really wasn’t best pleased. (NB I can see he was just after clarification but it’s known to all and sundry that I have a bitch of a temper when I’m tired. K and my colleagues have commented on it before and my old boss Reg, who we went to see early in this hol, told me that she used to just ignore me until at least 10am. Tsk.)
Eventually K finds a phone in the office room. Oh and it turns out she has a phone in her room too but didn’t bother to answer that one despite me stomping around and very loudly swearing at the fact that I can’t find a sodding phone despite it ringing.
Really not happy about that either.
After getting back to sleep was woken by Matthew at around 9. Off into CT for shopping and touristy stuff. Table Mountain was still closed due to high winds and cloud.
But the meteorology was impressive. There was blue sky everywhere except the mountain where cloud was piled up on the windward side and occasionally some would spill over the top and down the lee side to get dissipated by the wind. Looked excellent.
If you had a very poor grasp of meteorology you might have been annoyed that for the whole week the clouds just hung around the mountain rather than anywhere else in the sky.
But about the only “failed” thing of the trip was that we didn’t get up Table Mountain.
After returning home we had to sit outside for 40 minutes as John was not there, and didn’t answer his mobile. 40 mins is a longish while with a restive 5 year old and no clue when the key is coming.
But finally in and changed and ready to zoom off to a family event. It was the couple who’d just had their 25th anniversary on Sunday. It’s a large family and they’d brought as many round as could make it. Very nice food (partic the fish), loads of watermelon. Lovely people.
A very pleasurable evening with very nice company.
Home to bed. And only 1 day left.