Well, its been a really long time since I blogged, explains why I could never keep a diary for longer than a week lol. The holiday season was spent in Bloemfontein with all my family. We left on the 23 of Dec and stayed in Bloem for about 12 days. The 24th was my mom's birthday, she turned 66! The evening was spent at my sister's house where we had a fish braai, a tradition for the last few years. This was followed by a very peaceful week at home where nothing really happened. :) New years was spent at my sister's house again, with one of our friends and their neighbours making up the numbers. The evening was spent mostly by intensive dart competitions, which caused me to have a terribly sore arm the next day, and weird dancing moves by all the 30 plus men in the company, (this actually got more funny the more they drank!). When everyone was really tired and the alcohol had worked its influence, we played Balderdash. This game is really funny when played with the right crowd, and most of the time everyone would just lay around over the table, laughing so much you could not get up. I should say, this new years was a lot calmer in Bloemfontein than previous years, almost no commotion after 12??

After we got back I finally got to watch the movie Twilight. It is now one of my favourite movies of all time, it haunts you long afterwards. The book is even better, though I am struggling to find the second, third and fourth books. Had to order them on the internet. My birthday was yesterday and I got a trip to Durban. First we went to Ushaka Marine World and I should say it was wonderful. The aquarium is in an old ship and the tanks is beautiful. They had the sweetest big turtle but when I finally went back to take a pic he was gone *sob*. They also have a tank full of sharks, did not like the look of their teeth.. :) There is a small collection of reptiles and things which included some big spiders which I really do not like and also some poisonous frogs, which were very sweet and colourful. And a huge bullfrog, something I also once had. My toad got a bit aggressive with me when I was feeding, many times mistaking my fingers for food so I gave him to someone who works with them for a living. This is just some pics from uShaka:

This fish followed us from window to window, loved to pose!
Scary shark..
Some other characters
Me and my husband with the aquarium in the background

After this we went to the Pavilion shopping mall and after getting really lost looking for shops I bought the first season of Xena! I just loved those shows..

I am starting to do part time work for an old lady at the museum this week, she is 82! Have to update her earthworm database on the most ancient computer I have ever seen.. *sigh*. Will see how that goes.