“So many weather changes in the last couple of days – blazing hot, too hot – finally much needed rain has fallen on McGregor – the first since November 3rd.?? Thunder, lightning and rainbows – lovely…?? the garden is starting to feel much better, and so are we!?? This morning Janis was out fertilizing the garden while the rain poured down – she is quite a gardener and happy to be feeling the rain!

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Tomorrow, Thursday, the four of us are heading back to Muizenberg where we will spend our last??days in South Africa before heading back to the USA Saturday.?? We will leave Cape Town at 12:50 a.m. (arriving at the airport, eta 9:50 a.m.) and travel to Jo’burg – after a 3 hour layover, we will travel to Washington Dulles (IAD) arriving Sunday morning 6:00 a.m. – I believe the clocks will be sprung forward Saturday evening – but, we won’t know what time it is anyway – somehow we will??have to remember to fix the clocks at home!!!??

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I’ll try to fill you in on the things we’ve done that I haven’t spoken about.?? I must admit coming to McGregor has been the most relaxing time. The scenary is amazing, layers and layers of??mountains and loads of??beautiful birds.?? We’ve drank loads of wine, cider, spirits, etc.?? Had loads of great food.?? Janis is an incredible foodie.?? She whips up some??incredible tuna salad, avacados, olive tampanade, amazing potatoes with cream, butter and onions -??and on??a fun note,??Janis has dad eating “brown” bread!!!?? I’ve even tried different foods – lamb and beef sausage??on the b-b-q (braai).?? Prawns (heads needing to be removed by me)??and??even??Pork pate (homemade by Janis).?? ??

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Sunday evening we had a wonderful dinner at a restaurant in McGregor called Karoux run by a fun??(married) male gay couple – outstanding food.?? Last night (Tuesday) we had dinner at Madge and Jacks on a patio under a thatched roof – of course drinking many bottles of white and red wine (is there a theme going on here???)

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Yesterday we took a boat ride on a??river outside of Robertson, beautiful scenary and lovely birds – after the boat ride we had lunch of smoked salmon, pate and (of course) wine.?? Today we drove to the town of Montagu driving through a huge mountain pass, dad says it rivals??Glen Coe – this is where the british fought the boars.?? We had a wonderful lunch in a converted horse stable – the restaurant is called Die (pronunced de) Stal.??The owner of the restaurant, Suzanne, studied both in South Africa and Scotland – what a small world!

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After we head out to Muzinberg,??we will be??without a computer – so I’ll be in touch via cell phone.?? Hopefully they won’t cut us off again.??

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LOL – Susan and Dad

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P.S.?? Other things that have gone on in McGregor are the dyslexic roosters – they crow all day long from morning till evening.??

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Also, one day when dad and I went for our morning walk, we were followed by a cute dog.?? We finally – or as we thought – lost our amorous follower.?? He walked with us for blocks on end in the blazing heat.?? We zigged while he zagged, amd thought??we had given him the slip…??But, an hour later – he walked right into the house and would not, absolutely would not leave…????Janis gave him water and??after drinking the water put his feet into the dish – he must have been so very hot, like us…?? Finally, he had to be put in the car and taken to the center of the village to find his way home – tooooo?? funny!”

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