After School Detours

White & Purple Jacarandas

We are in the middle of the blooming jacaranda trees, the sides of the streets are lined with purple!  I even learned that there are white jacaranda trees and tortured Charlie after school one day driving around looking at the white trees.

Streets lined with blooming jacaranda trees

Today on the way home we detoured down Lawley Street, which is the famous street by us because at Christmas time they actually hang up a few Christmas lights.  Currently it is famous because it is the street Oscar Pistorius's uncle lives on and Oscar returned there last night after his short stay in jail.  In my sister Julie's honor we had to drive down, the scene was quite funny, there were a ton of news vans & a bunch of cameras trained on the house (I guess in the hopes that Oscar will go out of the gates at some point).  The best part was the guy who set up a grill and was cooking food, I'm guessing for all the reporters to purchase from him!

Grilling out on Lawley!

Cameras are ready, some of the reporters look quite bored!

Kids have a mid-term break with four days off, they are looking forward to it & some visitors...