Last days in Notwane

I'm writing this from our empty house on Plot 32A! Empty except for a bed and a couch and a tv, some necessary dishes and a pantry of food.

Friday the movers are coming to load up our stuff, and will unload it for us early in the A.M. on Saturday, at the new house.

We are really excited about moving, and hope that all our overseas friends will come and see us in the new place. It's a bit smaller than where we are now, but still with room for visitors.

Other than moving, big things going on here is that I'm back in the thick of things with my 2nd year of the new Degree, and as if that weren't difficult enough, the business is booming at present too. Most people say we are very lucky in that respect, but it's hard to remember that it's lucky, when it's keeping you up to your eyeballs in work.

However, we have had a chance to go away for a weekend over Valentine's Day, which was really nice, since we will be moving into the new place on our Anniversary, and having visitors on my birthday. We went to Madikwe (the game park just over the border in SA), to a really fantastic lodge called Tuningi, which was one of the nicest getaways we've ever had. They really pulled all the stops out for us on the 14th... we came home from a day in the bush and found the whole place covered in rose petals, and a bottle of red sparkling wine chilling by the (massive) bathtub. They really spoiled us, and we loved every minute of it.

It's going to be very busy couple of months ahead - our friend Beth is arriving just a few short days after we move into the new place, staying for about 5 days. Then a week after she leaves us to go on her own safari up in the Delta, The In-Laws arrive from NL for 2 weeks. Part of that time they will also be off in the north in Chobe and Victoria Falls, but we will enjoy having them on their first trip to Africa. When they leave at the end of March, we will have about a week and a half before leaving for our own trip into the Kgalagadi Desert for a week (with some friends) over Easter. We're really looking forward to that.

We'll keep this more up-to-date now, once we get into the new place, because we'll be able to have high-speed internet there (finally!) as well as a landline... so everybody wins! It's been a great 2009 so far and proves to only be getting better!

j2