Our Holiday at the Beach

Hello everyone!!

Mark and I survived our first holiday away with each other - barely! We went to the Southeastern coast of South Africa to a place called Chintsa East. We drove for 10 hours there and 10 hours home. I cannot tell you how beautiful it was down there. We arrived on Saturday afternoon, walked on the beach, relaxed, ate supper, and went to sleep. We woke up around 11:00 on Sunday, repeated Saturday's walk on the beach, had lunch at a little restaurant down the road and got groceries, relaxed, walked some more on the beach, ate supper, went to sleep.

LOOK AT ALL THE SHELLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After that is when it became not so fun. I woke up and didn't feel very well, so we stayed inside that day. Tuesday we drove 45 minutes into East London to find a pharmacy... by this time Mark wasn't feeling well either. We got our medicine, ate lunch at a restaurant on the beach, and went back to the house. We didn't really leave the house again until Friday - not even to walk on the beach.

On Thursday, though, we were out on the deck of the house and noticed some monkeys in the brush between our house and the water. We stayed fairly still and they slowly came into our yard. Mark got some bread and I cut up an apple to feed them. Don't know if we were supposed to do that, but it was fun!! You can see from the pictures that they were right next to us! They were so sweet, but we still didn't get too close - possible rabies and such.

And finally, here are pictures of the house we stayed in. It almost reminded me of the green cabin down at Star - kind of smelled the same too.... I wish we had gotten a picture of Lucy who came and cleaned for us each day, but we were too sick to really care all that much about lots of pictures....