cloud 9 blog

i was a bit lazy this last week i was off hence no blogging, so i thought i’d write up a big one on what i did the past week.

first of all our company took us to ratanga junction. it was pretty sweet going on the cobra and monkey falls again! weeeeee! specially when you had a beer or two in you. makes it the more fun! while on the monkey falls my phone decided it needed to clean itself and landed in a puddle of water and i though it was a goner! would not switch on so i dismantled it and left it in my pocket. there was also a vodacom promoter there who had some xbox 360s there and had a competition. if you clocked the fastest lap time of the day in a game called Need For Speed : Shift, you get to win a cellphone. if you manage to clock the fastest lap time in three days you get to win a laptop. i had the fastest time set (never played it before) until some 14 year old (who apparently is a hectic gamer) beat my time. arrg, the asshat! after ratanga we headed off to panama jacks in the table bay harbour. it was by far the best seasfood place i have ever eaten at. wow, HUGE plate of prawns, crayfish, mussles, calamari, etc.

saturday wokeup nice and early and took my wife out for the day to cape point for a picnic for her birthday. it was such an awesome day driving around the cape on such a beautiful day. drove to muizenberg, past fishhoek and simon’s town to cape point, has picnic and then dessert at the two oceans resturant. (bloody hell they expensive!). drove back past kommetjie, the new look chapman’s peek, houtbay and camp’s bay. took some awesome pics! (pics are on facebook if you have me as a friend). got sunburnt to shreds!

the rest of the time was basically, sicks for two days (food poisoning from braai sunday), finished modern warfare 2 and gears of war 2 (reviews will follow in the next few days), spending a very nice christmas lunch at the parent-in-laws and much to my wife’s dislike, me not wanting to really go anywhere and wanting to loaf at home doing as little as possible (isn’t that what holidays are for?) hehe.

yesterday went out for lunch with the wife to starlite diner where i decided it is time to revive my fishtanks, so i spent yesterday scrubing and cleaning my big tank and setup the stand and put the stones and water in and let the filters run. (another blog post for this)

it was a nice little resting week for me, now i can’t wait for the new year and start those resolutions. maybe this year will be different and i will actually do them, unlike the previous years!