OK, this post has taken me 3 days to get up!! Work has been busy, plus I have 2 prospective new clients, who I'll be doing books for privately, so trying to get all that set up and sorted out on the side. I've always wanted to get into doing bookkeeping privately, but have never quite had the "balls" to take the leap. Maybe it's time now...

The weekend feels like so long ago already. Jake & I did have a lovely one though. Friday night, we lazed at home together with a movie (Lilo & Stitch - trying to get him familiar with all the Disney characters before our trip) and pizza. We were both in bed early after a fairly busy week. Saturday morning, I went through to Somerset West for a friend's birthday; then had a wedding (Ruari & Kirsty) in Franschhoek on Saturday evening. I went through to Franshhoek a little early with Ruari's mom and his brother's wife, Sandi . We got dressed and ready and headed off for the wedding, which went really well, although the bride was about an hour late (don't you think that's rude) and they spent about 1 1/2 hours getting photos done. Crazy. I over-indulged on the booze (Pims, wine, champagne, Jagermeister and Jager bombs = bad hangover) and it was about 2am when I got home, so I had a really long day on Sunday. For the sake of getting out a bit and keeping Jake entertained, I drank 2 Red Bulls and Jake & I went out to Newlands Forest for a walk with my folks. Despite what most people think about the safety of walking through the forests of our beautiful mountain (there have been more then a few muggings), it was pretty busy. We had a lovely time; Jake had a ball. From there, we went to Rhodes Memorial for tea and scones, or in my case Savannah (OK, it was only lite, but id did the trick) and hot chips. Jason & Sandi popped in on Sunday evening for a glass of wine. It's so great to see them again, they're such wonderful friends. Funny how you can go for so long without talking to some friends, but when you eventually catch up, it feels like just yesterday that you were together. I love them to bits! It also sounds like they'll be joining us a Disneyland in Paris in June/July, which will be great. Well, Sandi definitely is coming, I'm just waiting to hear about Jason.

Anyway, here are a few pictures taken yesterday...

Jake's current favourite, a praying mantis

A nesting wasp in our garden...

Jake trying to lure Amber up onto the bench next to him with a biscuit...

Trying his best to get her up, but all her focus is on the biscuit...

Jake on a natural "swing" we discovered in the Forest...

Hugging a tree...

Catching his breath during our walk...

A reminder: Winter's on it's way...

Rhodes Memorial on the slopes of Devil's Peak...

Statue of Energy - Rhodes Memorial...

View over Table Bay from Rhodes Memorial...

Jake enjoying scones and cream at Rhodes Memorial's very busy restaurant...

Silly Banana...

Pulling silly faces for the camera (again)...

Cleaning the pool at home. Enough now, mom!!!

Jake's cork arrangement on top of our piano...

Something pretty to help you forget that ugly wasp...

Lots of love XXX