Plett - best of... edition

best beach pic of Connor and me

I saw this type of holiday post on a blog I follow, and I thought it was a really nice way to get a quick summary of the holiday without a boring play-by-play like in those other posts.

I'm generally not a fan of the "on this day we did this" post even though I would write those posts simply to record the memories before my too-full brain throws some information out.

best photo of us - I love it!

Best things about the trip

• Renting my work colleague's (obviously from the old team!) holiday home which is STUNNING...
• That also meant I simply left food behind for her. Normally we'd have to try and finish everything or throw things out. So convenient.
• Underfloor heating
• The beach and the beach photos
• A dishwasher
• Spending time together with my family and seeing the cousins together. Having my kids spend time with my mother.
• My mother doing Kendra's hair in the mornings (I mostly hate doing hair so it's a treat!)
• Finishing three books
• Taking beautiful photos

best photo of D and the kids

Worst things about the trip

• Having to herd my family along. Every time we're with my family, D says "no wonder you're like you are" (that's a compliment) because they're all unstructured, disorganised, etc....
• Finding the restaurant we were planning to go to closed!
• The rental car breaking down
• Still not having our money back

cutest grumpy pic

Best place to eat
Thyme and Again - about 5 kms outside Plett - awesome play area for children and DELICIOUS food. We all had pies and chips/ salad

best set of photos of Connor and me

Most overrated place to eat
The T.able.... we had pizza and pasta - wasn't fantastic, just okay




Best free activity
Running around on the beach and picking up sticks and shells (them); me taking photos :)

best photo of a happy K with Daddy

Best activity for adults and kids
Plett Puzzle Park

best photo of K and Mummy

Best unexpected surprise
One morning while once again waiting for my sister's family to arrive, we switched on the TV and found The Apprentice (we don't have any pay TV so hadn't seen The Apprentice for over 5 years yet... we love it)

best beach pic of K and me

Worst unexpected surprise
Connor fell down the stairs in the house! I heard thump-thump-thump.... no sound... WAAAAAAHHHHHHH and I FLEW down the passage and down the stairs.

He was very cute after that - "please hold my hand, Mummy" when normally he's Mr Independent :)

spied with the zoom lens - cutest pic of Connor

Would we do it again?
ABSOLUTELY! But this time, I already told K, it'll be at least a week :)

best family pic

best pic of Daddy and Connor at the beach

Did you enjoy reading this post?

I enjoyed writing it more than I thought I would :)

Grab a big mug of tea - an overload of Plett photos

This is one of my top 5 photos from our Plett holiday!

And I have 601 in total (after I deleted 368).

Anyway, enough yap yap yap (as Louisa says!).

Happy reading :)

I still intend to do a "best of" post... hopefully that will happen this week.

How was your women's day?

And so ends the holiday

We are pooped!

Those of you who are Instagram and FB friends may have seen in your feed that we had some "adventure" leaving Plett today.

Barely out of Plett and Connor wants the loo.

So we pull over at the next petrol station, the boys go do their thing and when they got back and D started the rental car, it wouldn't start and there was a lot of steam from the engine.

Some petrol attendants come help to do who knows what while I quietly freaked out. They think it's a burst water pipe or something like that.

After about 10 minutes, I said to D, I'm phoning the company to let them know.

They were fantastic (the one starting with an E) - sent a car from their Knysna office but turns out they sent someone from Plett instead. He was with us in about 15 minutes.

I'd worked out that we wouldn't be able to check in in time though so I phoned the airline, found it would be an additional R3280 to change flights (daylight robbery), tried to book online in case it was cheaper (even with our 35% discount, it would still have been R4300 one way...) so I phoned the airline back and booked those flights.

Can you see my dishwasher's wings flapping and flying away???? Such a waste of money!

There are two blessings though - 1) we were at the petrol station when all this happened and not out in the boondocks (!) and 2) that we do have the money and we're not scrambling to make the finances work.

It takes me about 5 minutes to adapt with these kinds of things so once we had our car, and our flights were booked (thank God for a charged ipad), I said, "well now, since our flight's been delayed by 3 hours, let's go have lunch in Knysna" and so we did :)

Here are a few pretty pics from Knysna.

 

And now, I really need to pack my work bag and choose clothes for tomorrow!

How was your Monday?