Wow, Christmas has come and gone. Unreal! We all had a great time sharing the day with all our WA friends, old and new. What a lekker party we had, and so thankful for our family away from family. You guys make this home. Thanks, Dankie, Inkosi. Alles is mooi, soene vir al julle gomtorre ;-)
Here follows a marathon post, as occurs from time to time.
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Our hosts for the day. Thanks a million guys from all of us, we had a great day.
Ons waardeer al julle moeite baie. |
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| Love you guys X. |
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Andre and Beat chilling out, getting to know each other. Beat and Mandy are new Aussies, permanently moving over in May.
Welcome you guys; "nou gat ons braai!" |
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| The ladies chilling out. |
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| What can I say? I'm such a lucky bloke. X |
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| Almost looks as good as if it were cooked on a gas Weber, hehehe! |
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| Briar's cool Christmas tree. Come 9pm there were only 2 chocolates left. |
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| Oom Kallie makes a brief initial appearance. |
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| Petie, Greg and Beat with Karla looking on. |
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| Petie showing everyone what NOT to drink... |
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| All I can say is these three are bound to get up to mischief (or more of it I should say) in the years ahead. |
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| Briar and Greg, our chommies from up North. |
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| Sonia, Sanchia and Kallie, our other goeie chommies from the North. |
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Beat, Mandy and Ryan, our new chommies, but we will
try to get them to move to Dockers country ;-) |
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| Oom Kallie came out to play. Malgat! |
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| Our lovely Karla. Jy is nou maar eenmaal net ons prinses X. |
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| Happiness is... |
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| Mandy helping Ryan unwrap a prezzie. |
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| Trouble x 3, but we love 'em. |
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| Playing musical presents with secret Santa gifts. |
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| Petie with "The machine"...I have camera envy :-) |
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| Musical presents boys-style...yep, discussing the rules and why they need changing... |
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| Mariaan taking on camera duty while Petie is busy with the secret-Santa game. |
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| Greg and Andre. Greg's new gift was going to come back to haunt him soon...see below. |
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| The great selection of refreshments on offer. Mmmm! |
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Greg said "If you guys can get do X, I'll down a beer", and wouldn't you know it, the
very next moment Petie did X! Eisch boet, bad luck, haha! |
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| 3 Rings for the Taxi! |
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Smoked chicken and Turkey cooked on the GAS Weber. Mmmmmm!
:-) |
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| Us with our hosts, Mariaan and Petie. |
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Greg and Briar making their famous Pavlova. It was just as good (i.e. awesome) as last year!
Hope you guys realise this is now set to be tradition in perpetuity. |
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| Along with Pavlova there was Marshmallow and Peppermint Crisp tart. All very, very tasty. |
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| Mmmmm! |
