"Mom, are we staying here until I'm big?"

“Mom, are we staying here until I’m big?” D asked me the other day.  I had a good laugh as I told her no and that we would hopefully be going home in about 14 more sleeps or 2 more Sundays.  We are starting to feel like we are in the home stretch now.  Over the half way mark at least!  Hard to believe we have been here for the entire month of July.

We have decided to hit the road again and make a slow drive to Johannesburg from here.   We have greatly appreciated our 2 weeks in Southbroom but are ready to do some more touring and excited to soon hopefully have Z’s passport in hand.  We booked our return flights home right out of Johannesburg rather than from Durban.  Generally passports would be couriered from the Embassy in Pretoria(just outside of Johannesburg) to Durban where families are staying.  We are choosing to pick ours up at the Embassy in Pretoria thus eliminating one of the 3 flights(from Durban to Johannesburg) and allowing us to drive there and see more of this beautiful country.    

The trip from here to Johannesburg is approximately 850km.  We are leaving on this morning, driving along the coast and planning to stop at a game reserve for at least one night.  Hopefully D can finally see her elephants(maybe even lions!).  We haven’t made many plans past that but are hoping to make some more bookings today. We will be driving in small spurts as to not create grumpy children.  Our plan is to be in Johannesburg to pick up Z’s passport on Monday morning and make more plans from there.  We are feeling refreshed enough to be in a new location.

D starts every day by asking what we are going to eat and where we are going to go.  We have meals planned fairly concise as to not over buy groceries so the first question is usually easy.  As to the where: we just tell her it is always a mystery!

Family feet in the sand!

One last braai!