We went to Franschoek for our annual weekend away. Joanita's mother owns a house on the river at Hollandsche Molen. What a lovely, relaxing weekend.
Most of us had arrived by 16h0o Friday 2 December. The hostess however was nowhere to be seen. The bookies have never been known for being shy, so we found the key and made ourselves at home. Out came the liquid refreshments, some snacks and of course hilarity ensued.
We missed our BEE bookie terrible, Jax had other commitments. However she let us all know how she felt when she posted FOMO on her FB page. It took us a while to work this out (Fear Of Missing Out) and we we responded accordingly - HAB-WYWH. If you can work that one out I'll...well I'll be impressed.
Chicken burgers for supper, amazingly they were edible considering the amount of liquid refreshment consumed. A big topic of conversation was text talk ie LOL, why does no-one say HaHa anymore? How to spell Heh heh was also quite an animated topic. Amazing how interesting these minor discussions can become when sitting under the stars next to a river making short work of a few bottles of wine.
Saturday was spent exploring the beautiful little shops in quaint Franschoek. The Champagne Festival was on that weekend too, and there was a lovely little craft market set under the shade of trees in church grounds in the centre of the town. Very pretty. Funny enough some of us were really excited to find an honest to goodness old fashioned second hand bookshop. One would think we were a book club or something.
Then we had a late lunch at a wine farm. Jo organised crackers and pressies for all of us, and as usual we got lost in our own little world of chatter and laughter about all sorts of things, eating on the verandah and just relaxing. Very important quality time for busy moms.
Saturday evening, believe it or not, was a pizza and sit around the fire chatting evening. We left relatively early on the Sunday as it was Arlene's son's farewell that afternoon.
Such a special group of ladies - thank you for another lovely weekend.
Love you all xxx
