Last day of holidays

Sadly, today was the last day of our Spring holidays. It is back to school tomorrow. I feel like I could do with a lot more holiday as they have been short and gone by too fast. I think the children agree but we need to get on as it will be a busy term with Lego League for J, a cookery course for K, keepers for K, upward soccer for Z and karate grading before year end.We also look forward to a visit from my mum and her husband and a visit to the Free State to see my dear sister and her family at year end.

Hubby has been working very late (and weekends too) so we have missed having him around . I decided the last day needed to be fun filled as we also missed out on going away for a long weekend this weekend and the last for various reasons. Sadly J was not with us today as he had slept over a friend that he had not seen all holiday.

T and I headed off with the kids to Imhoff's Farm. The drive over the mountain, being hard for both of us, as our family are not there for the mean time. We both miss them dearly and the kiddies miss their cousins.

Snake skins!
As we are continuing our animal studies in the upcoming week, we visited the Reptile Park. We saw many different kinds of snakes, iguanas, crocs, alligators, tortoises, and something I have not seen since I was a child: chameleons! The highlight was that the kiddies got to hold a corn snake. Z was cautious, K and little ZW were fearless!



We had a delicious lunch at one of the restaurants there and the little guys enjoyed the jungle gym. We strolled around the shops and the nursery and the second highlight of the day was that the children went for camel rides. Z was a little shaken as the camel stood up and I reminded him that he had ridden a camel before when he was only 3 , on the beach in Dar es Salaam. He seemed to feel a bit better once the camel was walking. The descent was not so bad as he knew what to expect...

The boys went on to play on an old tractor and we rounded the day off with ice creams for all. it was a great last day to the holidays. The children are all sleeping soundly and I am waiting patiently for Hubby to get to home.......oh I hear the car, its 10.43pm and he is fianlly home!