#welovebuckets

We probably have a lightning storm about once a year in Cape Town and they are super subdued (nothing like the Gauteng summer storms), so when an unexpected storm, with lightning, loud thunder, hard rain and hail to boot comes along in the middle of a serious drought, then it is party time for Captonians (or at least those who aren’t afraid of thunder because they’ve never heard it in their lives).

The water poured down, into the rain tanks, overflowing the gutters, streaming through the garden, and we caught what we could, bucketed it into the pond, added overflows to rain water tanks and had fun getting wet in the unexpected rain.

This was after the storm, but the hail was the biggest hail I’ve seen in Cape Town – about 1-2cm diameter.

The MacRoberts organised a Scottish Burns Night Supper, so yesterday was a tartan filled afternoon and evening of fun.

First we had to make our kilts and tartan clad clothing so that we could arrived in suitable style

The lassies and the wee laddie

We were grouped into clans and had to determine our clan name and war dance. We were the iMacs with a rather interesting war dance.

The iMac clan war dance

With the clans ready, the Highland games begun – caber toss, archery, three legged races and boulder throwing

Andre tosses the caber

Eli trying out the archery

Addy had his own war plans

Haig, the man of the day, cooked the haggis and addressed it brilliantly. And the haggis was very tasty (my first time).

It’s Scottish, so we have to have bagpipes

Poetry, singing and good times together.

Thanks Haig and Margeurite for organising a wonderful day!

We acquired a second hand espresso machine for the office on our way back from Jefferys Bay which means we’re dining way more coffee and practicing our latte art.

Today I managed to get a heart! Well maybe a heart crossed with a tulip

And then a bit later

Practice makes perfect, and we’re willing to do the hard work of drinking all that coffee to improve on the latte art.

Back to school and both Grace and Eli were excited.

Eli had his “handsome” shirt on and wanted his hair styled in a particular way and gelled to keep the same look all day.

Addy joined in the party, but he’ll only be starting next term.

The fort/treehouse is about halfway done now (hence the zipline being in action), but each step has had its fun and Eli has been helping out with the decking planks.

When they woke up and four of the deck planks were in place….

Eli’s been helping with the finishing work on the decking planks