I have to admit now that my time is now really flying bye. I left home over 3 months ago, and have about 8 months left. The last couple of weeks I have noticed I have been keeping busy on weekends, which is good.
Last month, actually it was my Canadian Thanksgiving, my friend Becky from work (Becky, is the teams and volunteer person at Project Gateway) took me out with another girl named Kath, to home up in the North end of the city to another friends place, named Liesel. Liesel has a beautiful home which her father built for her, and an awesome view of the city. After meeting Liesel, I have been meeting up with her weekly at an Alpha course I’ve been attending at NCF Church.
One night at Alpha, I was telling her that I would really like to get an awesome picture of our city. Since Pietermaritzburg pretty much sits picturesque in the bottom a bowl of rolling hills, I knew there had to be somewhere that would give me a good view. Liesel knew of a couple places and so our picnic hike adventure began.
I find the weather right now so variable, some days it is misty/rainy cool and damp and other days nice and sunny, and now some days just sizzling hot. I also find that there have been more rainy damp and cool days than the nice sunny days, and so for a few days before our hike they were really nice days, and so I hoped our hike day was going to be a good day and it was a really warm day.
So Liesel picked me up and we went back to her place to finish up our picnic lunch and waited for the other hikers to arrive. Our friend Kath, who I thought was coming couldn’t, but Liesel had other friends and so once they arrived and our grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches were finished we headed off for our hike.
What I didn’t expect or shall I say how ill-equipped I was for this picnic/hike I soon found out. I had decided not to wear my hikers (what was I thinking!!!) and wore a skirt (again what was I thinking!!!!) I some how managed to hike wearing my black sandals, which my feet were constantly sliding in and out of. But I did some how did manage to hike to our picnic spot. This by the way held an awesome view of the city. And we sat ate our lunches and chatted. Liesel and her friend Lisa, who just got back from South America, enjoys hiking in the Drakensburg Mountains. One of my to do things is to go hiking in the Drakensburg; so I’m hopping to go on an over night weekend trip with them to the Burgs. In the end the hike was great, saw a monkey on the way out. After Liesel and I were dropped off at her place she took me over to World’s View, which is another location that gives you another view of the city, but is also the route that the Voor Trekkers used when the traveled and settled into the area through the hills. Beautiful view too!
This coming weekend has turned into another busy one, but that’s okay. Felicia and Andrew are coming from Durban. I haven’t seen them in over a month, and Saturday tomorrow I’ve been invited to go to Lions Park, an animal park just outside of Pietermaritzburg. I hope the weather will co-operate and it will be nice day.
The city of Pietermaritzburg, SA.
My hiking group, Liesel wearing the read top.
Signing off....
