If you're someone who uses text messaging on your mobile phone, then you know it only allows short messages, another reason why so many of us substitute 4 for "for" and u for "you," etc. Susan is pretty good at this and sometimes I have to think about what she's saying. This morning, in the early hours, I heard the buzz of my phone vibrating atop my night table and pried my eyes open to see what the message was:
"Thank goodness no shark altho the blak shark flag has been posted on the beach 4 days. Headng thru wine country 2day 2 desert. Saw ostrich, donkey n hors"
Now I will admit that I was very sleepy, but I immediately read that last word a different way than it was intended and the imagination went wild — all I could think was how do those women make any money out in the desert? How did they know what they were? And what a strange observation.
Seconds later the next message appeared:
"e. Olive growers, cheese producers n wineries every where. I think i've died n gone 2 heaven! Now time 2 watch 4 cobra:-/"
Oooooooooooh! HORSE! That makes sense!
Well the adventure moves on today in the cool temps of 40˚C/104˚F. Sizzle.
190 km (118 miles) from Muizenberg to a "little town in the Cape Winelands called McGregor," is where John and Janis live, and where they, Dad and Susan will travel. According to mcgregor.org, it is described as "the best preserved and most complete example of mid-nineteenth century townscape in the Cape Province" — a "village time forgot." Can't wait to see the pictures from this town.
Their trip there is slow going as road construction (in preparation for the World Cup) is going on everywhere.
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