Grandolin’s blog for Amy, Zoe, Laura and Joseph

Another rainy day so we decided to see “The Just So Stories” at the Kalk Bay Theatre.  It was fabulous entertainment and very full so we sat on the floor.

Jon invited us for a movie at Cavendish.  There was nothing suitable so we made our own entertainment.  Zoe wanted pizza.  Amy wanted sushi and Jon wanted desserts.  So we all shared pizzas, then up the escalators for Sushi to share again,  and then a long, long ride to the bottom to find super desserts in new place in Woolworths.  It was fun.

The next day Charnay and I were sad to say goodbye.  It was a lovely week.

We began the sunny morning in  the jacuzzi.  Breakfast on fruit and cereal with Patricia’s crunchies. We went to Fish Hoek to look at hiring a bike for Zoe. Instead we found a super secondhand purple bike with fairy wheels.

Amy and Zoe spent an hour whizzing round the Fish Hoek beach car park in the strong wind. There were only 5 crashes and all recovered by bedtime.

Yvonne, Saskia and Kiana lunched with us and  played dressing up from the box.  We laughed a lot.

We spent an hour watching video of Zoe and Amy at Kwa Maratani.

The bulldog Charnay arrived on Friday.   Sunday morning in bed Amy and Zoe  entertained Jon and I  with the dressing up box.  When they had put on as many clothes as they could possible wear they decided to dress Jon with the Scottish wig/hat.  It made him speak with a Scottish accent which caused much laughter.

Jon prepared a super breakfast of poached eggs and salmon on English muffings with Bearnaise sauce.  Delicious!   Amy built my new Dolls house under Jon’ supervision.

We went to the garage to try out the bikes.  The smaller one suits Amy.

We enjoyed babootie for lunch with meringues and icecream and mangoes fpr dessert.

Jon and the dogs went home and we enjoyed the evening with a roaring fire.

After a long wait for the flight and then luggage Amy, Zoe and Rose finally arrived in Cape Town. Grandolin drove them to the Blue Route for hot chocolate drinks and cinnamon pancakes. Unfortunately we missed the opportuniity to Skype Laura and Joseph.

In St James we unloaded the suitcases on to the lift and drove to the garage while the lift took the baggage to Eight Bells.

We are all excited to be together in St James.

Tonight we watched video of Zoe and Amy when Zoe was 10 weeks. Jon arrived for supper and the girls finished watching a german video. Amy tells me if they watch this they will be able to understand Laura speaking German!!!

Tia and Eyal gave me bunches of flowers and chocolates which made me very happy. Jon arrived with more flowers and food for a delicious breakfast. We started with grapefruit before muesli and then Jon created the most beautiful looking breakfast. He made a tower of flapjacks, creamed spinach, smoked salmon, poached eggs and avocado. We drank sparkling wine. It was delicious and we did not eat for the rest of the day.

The weather was cold and windy so we all slept. Then Eyal, Jon and I went for a walk to Muizenberg on the path next to the sea and below the railway line. We crossed the line at Muizenberg station and walked up the hill through the park to Boyes Drive. The view of the waves rolling in was wonderful.

It was a wonderful Mother’s Day as I seldom see my children on Mother’s day.