What a weekend…there have been highlights, lowlights and some minor freak outs, but I survived!
It started with Tamsyn and I trying to get into the FH house to see the new carpets. Tried the key in the door, wouldn’t open which was odd ‘cos it worked the other day. So we peered through the windows and went to fetch Jessica from Gran. As Wouter was staying over Bellville side – the girls and I had one of what we like to call our Lazy B Nights, where I buy takeaways, we rent a movie or two and do nothing but eat and watch tv. Unfortunately the dvd’s I rented wouldn’t play on our dvd machine but we still enjoyed the pizza.
Saturday Tamsyn and I went shopping for provisions for Jessica’s fondue party – her 13th birthday party. We’d discussed what she’d like to do and much to my relief veered away from having a dance party with everyone from her class to a fondue/sleepover with 3 of her closest friends. I’d promised to make up ‘party packs’ for them which I had a lot of fun doing, going to various shops and finding ‘cool’ things to put in them. I adore anything that remotely looks like a lucky packet and tend to go all out when making them.
Which according to Jessica and her friends makes me one of the coolest Moms around.
Later in the day having dropped Tamsyn off at Gran’s – she was not ‘cool’ enough to be at a teenager’s party we went to fetch dvd’s. I do apparently have uncool moments though, especially when I insist on sticking to age appropriate movies. ‘I’m going to die a virgin’ Jessica tells me when for the umpteenth time I say no to an age 16 rated movie. ‘Good!’
Whilst we’re in the shop a troop of baboons decides to visit – they’re actually quite a nuisance and visit the local primary school on a daily basis which results in the kids having to eat their lunch indoors. As Jessica and I exit the shop a young baboon is eating rice off the pathway and seeing us comes rushing up to me and tugs on my jeans. In the meantime Mom has phoned me for some or other reason so whilst I’m talking to her I’m vigorously shaking my leg and yelling ‘Get Away From Me’ at the top of my voice. Mom goes ‘what?’ to which I reply ‘not you Mom, I have a baboon’ to which she says ‘why have you got a baboon?’ I was too busy trying to shake the baboon off to reply to her. Jessica thought it was the funnniest thing she’s seen in a long time and afterwards kept saying all I had to do was lift my leg – erhum. The thing that actually got to me was the two people safely standing behind their security gates on their shops saying to each other ‘Gosh Meryl I’ve never seen them come so close to a human before’ Thanks lady.
Having survived being accosted by a baboon we went through to FH to meet up with Wouter and finally see the carpets. It turns out the silly sods who came to lay them when locking the front door managed to close the door with the yale lock clicked into the locked position, thus making it impossible for us to unlock our front door. I suggested to Wouter beaking out the pane of glass on our bathroom door would probably be the easiest way of breaking into our house. Turned out to be more difficult than I initially thought but he managed to get the glass out without breaking it, which is actually a bit of a shame, I don’t like the red glass.
Finally getting into our own house we were able to see what the carpets looked like. I thought I’d made a mistake with the lounge carpet after peering in on Friday afternoon but it doesn’t look too bad.
The lounge
The passageway as seen from my room.
Jessica’s bedroom.
The novalon on our bathroom floor.
The rest of the story telling will have to wait till tomorrow I have two hungry girls to feed.