Gosh it is late, 2am on a Sunday (Saturday really if you know what I mean!) And all I have been doing is hanging with my Grandad and Marty! No alcohol involved so my brain is working on overtime, I can't sleep... therefore the best solution is blog time!
We had a wonderful evening tonight, well it has been a pretty awesome weekend so far! Grandad arrived on Thursday afternoon from Joburg and I went to collect him, then we went and collected Marty from work near Muisenberg, went home to chill out for the evening and Marty and I made a yummy dinner! Crumbed chicken, mashed potatoes, butternut, peas and a mushroom sauce! Yummo!!! Talk about diet OUT THE WINDOW!!! I am so useless when it comes to eating well.... (That is a whole other story!) We parked off on the couch, had lots of chats watched some TV and then headed to bed.
Friday Marty had to go to work (poor man) and so we didn't do much till the afternoon. Went for tea with some other family friends of mine, grandparents too, thought I would do some grandparent match-making! Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't! In the case of my gorgeous late granny it never worked!!! She would always embarrass me in front of my new granny friend (whom I had met at the beautician or at the shops) by lighting up a fag without asking, or asking for a whiskey rather than tea! The one little old duck (who was ten years my granny's junior) gave my gran a dessert bowl to use as an ashtray as she didn't have one... Thinking my grandmother dear would say 'no no, I shall just go outside and smoke,' puffed away and then put her butt out ever so carelessly on this pour woman's pretty bowl! Needless to say we were never invited for tea again! And the main purpose of it was to get my granny some new granny friends in her new granny area (she wasn't very pleased at the thought of moving into an old age complex!) I don't think she ever actually did have many granny friends, all her friends were much younger! She liked it like that as she was so young at heart! x
Back to Friday! Grandad and the other grandparents got on rather well, so it was a nice afternoon all in all. Although I did eavesdrop at one stage and realised that as soon as I popped to the loo, they were discussing what a loud and very excitable girl I was... etc etc!!! Ha ha!!!
We headed out for dinner later that evening to an African restaurant called 'Marco's Place,' I have always seen it but never been in, and have always been intrigued ... Decided I thought it was a little dirty for some reason, but we stayed and the food was actually pretty good... Despite the fact that I could see this African woman eating half a sheep head right near me... Grosse!!!!!
The best part of the whole evening was when the band started playing traditional African music and a dance teacher arrived to teach us an African football dance 'LA DUMA!' I dragged Marty down (us being the only white people! Therefore supposedly mean't to have much less rhythm, if any!) We tried our best to 'shake-shake, kick-kick, head-head, shoulder-shoulder!' I loved it of course, love dancing, all kinds, and especially love it when africans think I can dance well! 'Not bad for a white girl I get told!' Ha ha!!! I was pulled on stage to do some pelvic thrusting dance which was rather fun, but looks slightly rude, next time I see you ask me what I mean and I will show you!!! Lisa came with as it was her last night in Cape Town, but she was a very tired girl having had her farewell the night before...
Today we were up early-ish and headed to the old biscuit mill to the AWESOME food market that they have every Saturday! Love it! We are always full by the time we have walked around as we have picked all the tasters, cheap meal out I tell ya! Grandad enjoyed it, I think I get my love of food from him it seems, but it is nice to see him enjoy his food! We dropped Lisa off at the airport later this afternoon and it was a sad affair, she didn't really want to leave Cape Town, but I am sure she will soon find a new adventure! x
This evening though..... THIS EVENING WAS THE GREATEST FUN OF ALL!!!!! I decided to see if there was anything happening in Cape Town tonight and after looking through the few things I picked a production called 'Boeing-Boeing' which is on at the Theatre-on-the-Bay in Camps Bay. My oh my it was hilarious, we laughed and laughed, and even snorted at one stage! It is a story of a man who has three fiancees, all being air hostesses. He manages for ages until the new faster Boeing aeroplane comes into action and clashes start to happen as it is a faster plane. Man, it was brilliant! Only 2 actors and 4 actresses but marvellous it was! It is on until the 5th June so whoever is in Cape Town go and see it! I highly recommend it! x
Tomorrow we shall head for some fish & chips (Grandad is in need I think! He keeps mentioning it!) So that should be nice, I really don't want him to leave on Monday, but how jolly nice it is seeing him again. That is definitely a plus point at having left London, I get to see my family more than once a year, finally after ten years of only once. Most especially, my wonderful Grandad. If only I had had more time with my Granny.
I shall enjoy every minute of this. I have a brilliant Grandad and I am so very grateful! Hope all is okay with all of you, I guess I better get to bed now... Busy day tomorrow! Good night all! x
