This house belongs to an old friend of mine. Rough in Africa huh?
Ash sitting on Lance and Janes veranda.
The Drakensberg
Before we left for the Berg, we attended Alisdair's Christening. Nick went out with Bungy and Roys kids the night before, so spent the whole time puking in the parking lot while we were singing carols....
This is Alisdair on the veranda at the house.
I bought a little remote controlled glider that is great fun. Its called a Fling. Can you see it in the top right of the picture? Once again Ash is doing well with the camera....
The Xmas Festivities
The usual hectic flurry of activity preceded the meal.
After Nick had fed much Burbon to Christo, Bill bravely asked them to extract the stuffing from the tin foil. Amazing that it ended up in one piece. Christo said that it was the best thing he had ever tasted.
The masses...
Scott told an extremely funny and appropriate joke very eloquently
The Acsent of Mount Derrier
This is the view from the veranda of the house in the berg.
We decided to climb it - departed at 8am in the rain. The rain caused a number of people to drop out so only a hard core of veteran climbers attempted it. The Son and Air even made it, which was astounding. 8 am!
This is us at the top. The rain on the way up prevented pics on the journey. It had nothing to do with exhaustion I promise (I am still stiff 3 days later).
Audrey did very well, even though she decided that 75% was good enough, she responded well to the "2nd street extension" lie.
The obligitary group pic on the top.
Bill took this of us at the top with his telephoto lense.
The route that Ash decided to come down was near vertical so we went down on our backsides. Not a bad way if you dont plan to wear your shorts again. There was much hilarity on the descent, the ascent had a lot less chatter...
Bill (rather meanly) took pictures as we got back...
Here are the mountaineers in front of the massif
See the damage to the shorts???
2 comments:
Hi!! Sarah here:
I have just worked out the address of the blog and so have spent a lovely long, indulgent time reading all your adventures in one sitting. It looks magnificent and the Big Walk/Mountain Adventure looks lovely and lush.
Have a fantastic New Year celebration and I will see you all next year (if you ever decide to return!)
It seems the Bester family tradition of forcing all children to climb to the top of the highest peak in sight while on holiday continues. Although I suspect it could also be a Bainbridge tradition too.
We went to see the James Bond movie last night and we all (Chris, Sarah, Kate & Chrisg) walked out of it saying "Audrey!".
It took me a third of the movie to realise who the beautiful Bond girl reminded me of. Chris suggests that Audrey give up uni and get into the movies.
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