Horses and Courses

On friday afternoon my boss gave us all a tip about a horse running on saturday afternoon. I thought it would be a wonderful suprise for Tess if the horse won and I could tell her: "I put money on a horse...and we won R800!!!!" So I put R50 on the horse called "The Walk". Other members of the office invested slightly more in this sure thing.

So friday night whizzed by as we got some Kentucky Fried Chicken and then crashed until 11am Saturday morning.

I went off to the Arthur household to watch NZ take down the Wallabies while Tess stayed home to prepare her lesson for the Xhosa kids.

Saturday afternoon we wandered around Vincent Park (The one and only mall in EL!) and picked up "The Incredibles" and "Totsi" for a nice price! Then home only to find out that "The Walk" had walked...apparently he was so slow they had to send a search party out to find him.
So my wonderful suprise for Tess was:" Hey love, I lost R50 on a horse!". (My apologies to those offended by my gambling.)

Saturday night we had our new good friends Andrew and Karen Marshall over for dinner and a DVD called Elizabethtown. The friends can only be described as great. The film can only be described as vague.

Sunday was a good day. A rocking profound meeting followed by lunch with Gran and a sweet soccer match in the late afternoon.

Sunday evening we spontaneously went to visit our other new good friends the Thompson's for pancakes and then home early to bed so we could rise early and continue fighting for our prayer life!! GOD is good as I awoke at 4:45am....15 minutes before my alarm!

I also manged to get some Xhosa gospel stuff for Mr Melani.. see Can I have Your Pants?