As far as holidays go, this Christmas/New Year trip to South Africa was pretty great. I read voraciously for the first time in years, at least 3000 pages of literature from Ken Follett's new The Fall of Giants to Dahl's Matilda which was written after I was of the usual age to read it. I saw it on the shelf of the young girl's room DH and I were sharing in Cape Town and had been hearing about the Tim Minchin musical adaptation of the book for the London stage. Every parent should read Matilda if they haven't already. Most of us would see ourselves reflected in Matilda's hideous parents at least once in a while.
Our trip home was very smooth, but we all suffered the usual kinks and cramps that goes with travelling for 24 hours. It was soooooo good to sleep in my own bed. I missed making my cappuccino in the mornings and even doing my own laundry, which is a good thing because there is a hefty pile of it. I had a wicked foot cramp and Seb was delirious with exhaustion despite the several hours of sleep he got on the plane. Emirates has the best entertainment system I have ever seen on an airplane, even in cattle class. The kids watched Megamind upteen times and I caught up on about 12 films on the way there and back. I did not get very much sleep. My favourite movie was the Social Network about "The" Facebook. At Dartmouth, we used to call the book distributed to all new Freshmen students "The 'Shmenu", which I think would have been a catchy name for the application too. At least for the initial program Zuckerberg designed instead of Facemash.
DH and DS1 left the day after we got home for a week in Vancouver. They have taken the iPad. DS2 is bereft. We are hoping my Mum and Dad will see the brilliance of the device and buy themselves one. I have tried to download Angry Birds onto my old G1 Android phone, but I can't find the application once downloaded.
Well, time to get ready to go back to school tomorrow. Connecting with friends again after three weeks away. How I will miss them!
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