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| 1st January 2011 - New Years Day lunch at home |
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| January - a quick trip up to Phuthaditjhaba and Witsieshoek top of the Berg |
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| January - Kate-Lynn flies out to Trondheim, Norway on a 3-month student exchange |
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| January - Mark returns to Cape Town for his 2nd-year engineering |
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| February - we visit Shisa farm and Mark for his 19th Birthday |
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| 7th February - Mark's 19th Birthday in Stellenbosch |
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| March - We do some renovations and decor changes at the Guesthouse |
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| March - Dave executes his first Notarial document as a Notary Public |
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| March - Dave runs a Consumer Protection Act Seminar at his Toti law office |
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| March - visiting Port Elizabeth for Llewellyn's SpecSavers Conference |
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| April - Vinnie and Erland from Norway visit Durban |
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| April - Kate-Lynn returns from her Norway exchange |
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| April - My friend Ralphs pays us a visit in Durban |
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| April - We visit Gold-Reef City, Johannesburg, with the kids |
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| May - the guesthouse is full with the annual Indaba Travel Show in Durban |
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| May - We go to Battlefields, Dundee, for the weekend and to view an RV we were considering buying.. scene of the Blood River battle and museum |
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| 21 May - Dave has his first flying lesson in a Foxbat at Light Flight Cato Ridge with instructor Brad |
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| June - Comrades Marathon in Durban.. cheering the runners on |
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| June - reminder of what not to do when flying an aeroplane. Wreckage of a Light Flight pilot killed with his dad on the day he got his licence. |
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| June - Mark returns for his Varsity Winter vacation |
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| June 19 - Father's Day lunch with my mom and kids |
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| June - first dual cross-country to Margate, Richmond, Ixopo and Cato Ridge |
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| June - Mc Naught and Co wins Best Legal Services award |
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| June - we visit Johannesburg Tedderfield Airfield to meet Mike Blyth of The Airplane Factory and see our Sling airplane in production |
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| 30 June - Dave's first Solo Flight |
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| July - we dress up for the July Handicap Races at Greyville Race Course |
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| July - the kids chilling and soaking up Durban's glorious winter sun |
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| July - on Mark's return to studies in Cape Town we pay him a visit and enjoy the Cape, the wines and the song.. |
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| July - Cape Town rocks! |
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| August - Llewellyn turns 41 and the twins 11 |
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| August - the Phoenix runs around just north of Durban |
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| August - Llewellyn organises a table at the Madame Zingara spectacular and dinner in Durban |
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| 24 August - Dave gets spoilt on his 53rd birthday |
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| 31 August - we jet off on Emirates from Durban to Jordan and Syria |
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| September - Amman, the capital of Jordan |
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| September - we met some awesome guys on our desert safari and enjoyed too many beers on the shores of the Red Sea |
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| September 15 - Dave takes delivery of our new Sling Airplane from James of The Airplane Factory in Johannesburg, flying up with Instructor Brad to fly the plane back to Durban together. |
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| September - Dave gets to fly this cute helicopter at Light Flight |
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| September - A welcome braai for the Sling - ZDL Red Rocket at Light Flight |
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| October - during the year we host several Couchsurfing guests at the Guesthouse |
Have a happy, healthy and prosperous 2012! May it be even better than the last.
ReplyDelete~ Volker