Tim and I were in Johannesburg for Christmas, with my sister and her husband, Gill (with me on the left) & Michael and their large extended family. Great gatherings and lots of fun.
As well as enjoying good wine and the best of Christmas fare, Tim and I squeezed in a few hours of exercise with Will and Jen, hiking in the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens. Someone had to take the photo - thanks Jen!
Here's another photo of the typical merriment around the dinner table - from left, Sherry, Tim, Polly, Michael, Gill, Jen (peeking in the gap), Will, and Michael's nephew, Michael Collins.
Back home to Cape Town and five days of extreme winds. Very unpleasant. And then the weather turned strangely tropical in this Mediterranean climate zone. Yesterday, New Year's day, we woke to thunder and lightning and heavy rain pounding our tin roof.
Thankfully the clouds cleared up by lunch time leaving in their wake a gorgeous afternoon and a warm, windless evening. For the first time since our arrival in Cape Town, we were able to eat under the stars on our veranda. So all was looking good. But this morning we woke to more rain which didn't really clear up, so we pretended it was winter and went to a movie (You will meet a Tall Dark Stranger - not as funny as I'd read it would be.)
Stanford students began arriving today with more to follow tomorrow. Orientation occupies the rest of the week. I left my camera in the SAA lounge in Johannesburg so I won't be able to take photos. Boo hoo. I've been trying to get it picked up by someone passing by the domestic terminal but so far, no luck.
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