Day Five

This was Sunday and we all decided that a quiet day at home would be appropriate after the rather busy previous day. Unfortunately for my son-in-law, he still had to front up at University and run the second of two Sunday seminars on Sedation for a group of local dentists. So it was a 6 am departure for him and his motor bike. The early departure is needed to give him time to get through the daily traffic congestion.

We had passed the Faculty of Dentistry building yesterday and saw where he works. He has quite a distance to travel each day to get there.

However, a quiet day for the rest, which started off with my 9 year old granddaughter making pancakes for breakfast to go with syrup and fruit. Nice to be eating Dragon fruit, fresh pawpaw and mango again. Later in the day, I had mangostein with its thick outer case rather than a skin protecting the inner white sweet flesh. She has become a practised pancake maker.

Other than a trip out to the nearest equivalent of a corner dairy, or more a local supperette, One on One, which is across the road from Hope International Christian School. It was a quiet day with everyone focusing on their own activities or watching a Mr Bean DVD. My oldest grandson is focused on making costumes and various articles for and Ancient Roman soldier and for other characters. My 12 year old grandson was video editing and successfully working out audio features of his new Sony Vegas editing programme. I am very impressed at the way the four grandchildren can settle down to their own interests and activities.

We had invited an ex Howick family around for tea and they duly arrived, four on a single motorcycle as happens here, during a heavy monsoon downpour. So we had a great time with the family. We have known him since he was an infant. These days along with his wife they focus on working with the disadvantaged and those at risk. Particularly young people. They have set up a mentor programme called Alongsiders and this has taken off in a really exciting way.

The children had a lot of fun together.

Our friends headed off home between show ers around 10:40 pm. It had been a really nice time.