AFRICA

I am in Africa and it is wonderful. I left on Friday, July 11th and below is a short update. I have a ton of pictures but do not have time to post them quite yet but I will get on it soon :-)

Day 1- July 11- 2 hr. flight from Orlando to New York; 4 hour layover; board plane to Johanasberg, South Africa

Day 2- July 12- arrive in Joberg at 5 pm. I have been on the plane for 18 hours straight! Take bus to hotel to spend the night.

Day 3- July 13- 2 hr. flight from Joberg to Windheok. My mom and bubba picked me up. We stayed overnight in a really cute lodge. Went to eat at a place called Joe's Beer House. They serve all sorts of meat, Oryx, Zebra, Kudu, etc... I eat COW and a baked potatoe.

Day 4- July 14- Drive 6 hours to mom's house. It is very big and very nice. All the houses (including hers) are surrounded by very high concrete walls in addition to razor wire at the top. Unpack and relax

Day 5- July 15- Run errands around town. I helped mom pick paint colors for the entire interior of the house and we ordered the paint. It's going to look very pretty. We hung laundry out to dry (no dryers!!!), washed dishes by hand, and prepared food. It's like being a housewife in the 1940's! We went to the grocery store; 2 actually, to get everything we needed.

Day 6- July 16- Went to the game park. It was so amazing. We saw soooo many different wild animals; Giraffe's, Elephants, Zebra's, Kudu, Oryx, Spring Bach, Wildebeest, and tons of other animals that I can't remember the name of at the moment. We drove around the park for 10 hours!! These animals are soooo big and it is so amazing to see them in person. There were 29 Elephants at the watering hole all at once. Then we saw 20 Giraffe's at another watering hole. I learned today, by observation, that they sniff each others behinds like dogs do. It was quite interesting.

I am about to take a shower and go to bed. I will keep the blog updated as I go and post pictures to my album soon!!

Summer!!!

Summer is here and it has been great. In June I went to my dads for a few days and Birmingham for a week. I finally finished the Alternative Certification program for my professional educators certificate; I could not be happier about that. We saw fireworks on the 3rd and the 4th and then again last night at the race so I am pretty much fire worked out. Although they were all pretty. So now it's July and Jackie and Patrick are down visiting. We went to the Daytona, Pepsi 400 yesterday. It was a lot of fun; which was a suprise to me. I thought it would be boring but it wasn't... I'm all packed and ready to leave for my trip on Friday :-) Going to Africa for 16 days to see my mom!!! So, that is pretty much all for now. Oh, I posted new pictures in my album so check them out.

Last day of work

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!! Today was my last day at work until the Fall. I am so excited and a little anxious...what will I do this summer? I do have plans to do a little traveling and we have some people coming down here but other than that I don't know. Today is Stephen's 27th birthday so we ate cake and I made lasagna. I have eaten so much today. I actually ate a big lunch and dinner, which is rare. I normally eat soup for lunch and a bigger dinner so I feel pretty full! But anyways...I'll keep y'all updated throughout the summer. I will have new pics soon too :-)

I cut my hair

I did it, I got my hair cut today... I like it and I like that I can still put it up. I do wonder if I should have gone a little shorter and added some layers though. I'll leave it for now and in a couple of weeks maybe I'll change it :-) I also added a few new pictures in my album.

My hair

I am thinking about cutting my hair. I have been growing it out for almost a year but now I am pretty much over it. It has gotten pretty long but the problem is that I never want to take the time to fix it so I always end up putting it up. One of the reasons I don't fix it is because I can't stand the feeling of my hair touching my back. I can even feel it through my shirts. So what is the point of having long hair if I am never going to wear it down?! I want to cut it to where it is right above my shoulders and put some auburn red high lights in it. I don't think I'll do the bangs again though because it is too much work...

Pictures

I just figured out how to add a photo album. I only have pictures from this past weekend and a couple of random ones from April but I'm working on it :-) Oh, and for those of you who don't know where to look just look to the left under "connections". Click on the word "photos"

MIAMI

We went to Miami this weekend and I must say it was an interesting experience. We got a lot of sun on Sunday and both of us were a little sunburnt but I am all better. Stephen is still in a little pain but he'll be o.k. We got home today and Stephen cut the grass while I went to the grocery store. Then we grilled hamburgers and Tostones and are now relaxing and getting ready for bed. Oh, we have a contract on the house. We won't have a definate yes for a while but I am thankful that we have a contract. The first people who looked at the house put an offer on it. I am praying that everything goes through o.k. and I would love it if everyone else would pray for us as well. Lord willing we will be back in Birmingham by August :-) Well, I just wanted to update; I'll be back later!