Christmas Assembly

Wow! Two posts in one day!

This one will be short, but with a few pictures.  On the last day of school we had a Christmas assembly.  It was an awesome show.  It was sort of a musical about Sherlock Holmes.  The setting was in Bethlehem at the time that Jesus was born.  Sherlock is trying to figure out where and when Jesus is born.

After the play Mylon was Father Christmas and gave out gifts to the grades 1-2 and candy canes to other kids. Check it out.

Christmas Plans

I guess I should share a little about our plans for Christmas. We have about four weeks off. So obviously we have to get off the school property and visit stuff!

We are staying here for the first week. Mylon will be busy with others setting tiles in the main kitchen and dining hall. After that, we'll be heading to go to South Africa for about three weeks. This should turn out to be an awesome trip. We have a lot of things planned and a lot of days unplanned. So it will be fun and relaxing. We are going to the Lion Park in Johannesburg. That is where you go to pet baby lion and see other animals and go on game drives. We will be camping there for one night. We are also going on a 4-day camping trip to Kruger Park. It's the largest game reserve in Africa with many animals, including Africa's Big Five (lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros).

After that, we are taking a very long bus ride to Cape Town. There we will spend about two weeks (in a nicer hotel for Christmas then a cheap hostel afterwards). Going to the beach, shopping, climb Table Mountain etc. There are a lot of things to do there. I can't wait. But at the same time, the school term is ending very quickly! I can't believe it is done this Wednesday.

I was busy reviewing all the report cards today before printing them. There are practises for the end of term show, lots of visitors to prepare for.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and holiday season. I don't know how much blogging I will post while we are on vacation.

Take care.   

Sable antelope

Oh boy. Ok I'm getting behind. It seems like not a whole lot changes around here and there hasn't been much to write about. But I guess there's a few things to talk about. A few weeks ago, Mylon and I went to our neighbour's place, who own a game park. They have many different animals, including sable. Here's a picture of them. Also, a picture of two male sables fighting over the ladies. It was pretty neat to see! And we weren't far away!

Anyways. So on this particular day, we took a day off school to help with capturing the sables for transfer. So there was a vet driving around shooting tranquilizers into the sables. Then a group of workers from the farm would pick them up and put them in the back of a safari-type vehicle, and they brought the animal to the transport. All together, they would lift the animal, put it in a compartment and then I would scan the tag, and Mylon and I both injected the sables in the butt full of sedatives. They had a long drive ahead of them. Here's us and our tools :)

We are so lucky that we live close to these wonderful people. We get to try new things that we would never otherwise dream of doing. It's so neat to work beside these animals.

I will write another blog very shortly about other things. Take it easy!

And Happy December!