Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Christmas 2011

The Christmas celebrations started with the staff at WR going to Costa de Sol, a great seafood restaurant across from the beach.


Check out this seafood platter with prawns, lobster, barracuda, calamari and more:


Christmas Day we were in church and then at home with a Korean friend. We forgot to take pictures! We had invited several others but for one reason or another they could not come so there was plenty of food left to eat the rest of the week.

Monday we stopped in to see our Cuban friends. Miss Debora is modeling a dress I made her out of two head scarves (with room to grow into it). I got the idea from the last church team that came. Ladies in the village are making them (and other items)to earn money for another truck for their agriculture association.



Then we were off to a great B&B at a farm in Swaziland. They have lots of litchi trees that are just starting to be harvested. I didn't know they could get this huge!


The hydrangea were also in full bloom. The Afrikaners call them Christmas Roses.


We spent time reading, and walking all over the farm on hiking trails.


On the way home we stopped at a small game park, Hlane. The animals were being shy, or maybe just lazy with the heat like these rhinos.


This dung beetle was certainly being industrious.


The giraffe family was fun to watch and almost close enough to touch as we drove by.


Anyone who has been to a park knows that the impalas are abundant. This time we came across two "nurseries" with very new babies. So cute!


We also saw a herd of waterbuck, wildebeest, warthog, kudu, hippos. It was a great mini-vacation.

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