As we drove through downtown Pretoria this morning, Charlie and I were on the lookout for the penguins, no luck. Charlie's eyes were barely open he had a rough night, high fever, after a trip to the Embassy doctor and a local pharmacy we started treatment for strep throat. (Katie may have it too). His fever was pretty high last night and he was mumbling all kinds of things, I was trying to figure out if this is normal little boy imagination or if perhaps he's been in Africa too long...here is what he told us...
"There is a yellow snake over there" I asked if it was venomous, he thankfully told us no. He then reported there were spider monkeys at the window. He then got really scared and told me there was a crocodile at my feet, I asked if it was a baby crocodile or a big one, it was a big one! Luckily I survived!
We are making Thanksgiving preps here, its very strange though, no one else is celebrating but the Americans. We have a few South African friends coming over to see what American Thanksgiving is all about. Luckily I've found a few stores with turkey and I've heard rumors of canned cranberry sauce that Greg and the kids like being available at the local market. As for cranberries, I've seen them once, frozen at a yogurt place where you can add them as a topping-yet never in a grocery store...not in MA anymore!
Christmas Decorations are EVERYWHERE, as there is no Thanksgiving holiday to at least hold people back from decorating. We walked through the mall the other morning and saw all the trees, then in the middle of the grocery store the power went completely out...the generator kicked in after about a minute, fortunately I had a flashlight on my car keys to get us through the long minute! (Charlie was a little scared) They have been doing rolling blackouts here as the grid can't sustain the demand. Luckily for us at home we have a generator for the compound. Our only challenge is constantly losing internet access, whenever it rains we lose it...we have entered the rainy season so it rains almost every day and we all look to our little router light and see if our internet light is on or off...mostly its off, so Greg has fun calling Telcom and torturing the poor worker who has to answer his call.
We hope all of you are getting ready for some relaxing on Thursday, think of Kelly & Katie who have school that day (unless we let them skip)! We also learned the Macy's Day Parade will be broadcast on the Armed Forces Network TV in the afternoon, so we are excited to watch it!
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