Sunday 21 October 2012

Fourth Day Tour

Here is Google Maps so that you can see where my different destinations are.

Wilderness

Schedule:
6:30   Wake up
7:00   Religion
7:15   Breakfast
8:00   Depart
9:00   Kayaks ride at Wilderness SANPark here
13:00 Lunch
14:00 WildWoods Tree Adventure go Tarzan here

Experience: Although not the best day, the WildWoods was the best activity. I honestly have doen a lot in my life, but this was unique!

PS. 
I forgot to tell you, we also went here and here

Love xoxo

Charlotta

Saturday 20 October 2012

Third Tour Day

Here is Google Maps so that you can see where my different destinations are.

Oudtshoorn

6:30   Wake up
7:00    Religion
7:15    Breakfast
7:45    Depart
9:30    Wilgewandel Holiday Farm (see this freaky fun place here)
12:30  Cango caves (never heard of it? click here)
15:00  Cango Ostrich Farm - I Rode an Ostrich! see here

Experience: It was the best day! I can only say it was thrilling. I was so terrified when i rode the Ostrich, and apparently someone commented "watch her mullet blowing!". I don't have a mullet, but When i was very small my hair was cut pixie style. When I started growing it, it KIND OF look mullet-ISH.

Second Day Tour

Here is Google Maps so that you can see where my different destinations are.

Knysna

Schedule:

7:00   Wake Up
7:30   Religion
7:45   Breakfast
8:30   Depart
10:30 Knysna Elephant Park (awwww here)
**:** Lunch
14:30 Featherbed Nature Reserve 

My Experience: The Elephant park is amazing! You get to feed, stand next to, rub, take photos with and just watch the elephants! You don't realize hos majestic they are till you're standing next to them. Oh, and we saw a wild seal while in the Featherbed Reserve. So Cute!

The First Tour Day

I'm gonna categorize these  post day-by-day, of a week long tour.

Here is Google Maps so that you can see where my different destinations are.

We Went to Hartenbos in the Western-Cape, South Africa on the first day.

This was our schedule:

6:30  Wake up
7:00   Religion (Pray etc)
7:15   Breakfast
8:15   Depart
9:00   Redberry Farm (check out this unmissable place here)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Hartenbos Waterworld & Heated swimming pool (also see here *sorry the site is in afrikaans* )

What I can basically tell you out my own experience, it was so fun. The Strawberry picking was amazing with there being this huge maze inside where you can delightfully get lost in, and the Waterworld was daringly thrilling!  I never want to grow up!

Excuses and apologies

Now, I realize that I am a Scum for not writing on here for 10 days. But in my dogged defense  I went on a tour and when I came back, I was sent off to school. THEN, the electricity went off. Capoosh. Then, when it came back on, it started raining. The rain broke our Wireless transmitter. Now (for how long?) everything is back to normal.

Now, I shall relate my amazeballs tour. I've labeled this post under #southcapetour so click on the label underneath to see my whole journey. It's so good to write again!

Thursday 4 October 2012

Bum Muffles

As you all probably know by now, I post about the most random topics that have ever surfaced into my mind. Here is a particularly weird early morning quirk.
Whilst my family and I were having our after breakfast tea, this dialogue was present...

Charlotta: My bum muffles hurt...
Oops! Bum Muscles...

Mother: Muffles... A silent fart! (uproarious laughter)
SBD!

Sister: Like when you think the cat or dog has done it!

Why have I told you this? Because I honestly don't think you will read it anywhere else.

Bum Muffles!

ps. I'm sorry if this offends some old bags - get over yourself!

Tuesday 2 October 2012

My Dream

Last Night I had a puzzling dream...
This is all true. No Lie.

My mother was training me as a swimmer. We were at a gala at a lake in Africa. I was fast, so I came first. Whilst I was waiting for my competitors to finish, I noticed a old man who had given up and was flailing about on a orange dingy. I asked my mother what his name was, and she replied with a strange, "Figs". I started swimming towards him, but before I could shout for help, another dingy with a wild, psychopathic woman was speeding towards me! In a very dream-like fashion, when she hit me, I flopped onto the dingy and rode with her. I looked at her suspiciously and hoped she would not abduct me in the process.  When I turned around, I saw we were heading to a watery doom!. In front of us, Figs was doing 360 degree turns at high speed. When we connected  I got squished between the two boats, turning around and around. Again and Again.

And then it ended.

Monday 1 October 2012

Bran Muffins :)

Recipe for Bran Muffins:

Makes 12

Ingredients 

  • 750 ml bran
  • 250 ml warm "rooibos" (SA tea, which translates to "red tea", try any fancy tea to your taste)
  • 180 ml brown sugar
  • 100 ml canola-oil
  • 250 ml cake flour
  • 250 - 375 ml whole wheat flour
  • pinch salt
  • 125 ml currants (which I didn't use :)
  • 125 ml bashed pecan nuts
  • 12 ml bicarbonate of soda
  • 60 ml buttermilk
  • 2 large eggs, beaten
  • 60 ml sesame seeds
  • 60 ml roasted sunflower seeds



Now, Work!

Preheat the oven to 180 C and spray a muffin tin which has 12 hollows


1. Mix the Bran, oil, tea and sugar in a big bowl and leave aside.






                                     2.Mix the cake flour, whole wheat flour, salt, currants and nuts. Then add this to the bran mix.

"Koek Meel" means cake flour in Afrikaans


Which we crushed in a coffee grinder


 3. Dissolve the soda in the buttermilk, then add the eggs. till you get...


4. Mix the bran mix and the buttermilk/eggs together. Don't "mix too much", cause otherwise the muffins get big tunnels.


5. Scoop it into the muffin tin till 2/3 full. Sprinkle the seeds on top and bake for 15 - 20 minutes, until ready.


All Photos by my sister, Emma

MIU MIU

As we all know, fashion has been parading down the runways these last few months. Now, here are my favourite selections from Miu Miu, straight from Net-A-Porter.



What is better than red???






Even I wold look sexy in that bathing suit... I mean... com'on 

TOMS