Mac Moments

Mom's birthday with her gorgeous grandchildren Needless to say June, July, August and September have flown by and I have not updated my blog for far too long .... inspired last night to get my act together by a conversation held about Blogs, Twitter and FB, .... I am back and will update all and sunder of our latest family adventures ..... Burj Khalifa way up there Dolphin experience at Atlantis - Dubai June was relatively painless with the last couple of weeks of school going by quickly with end of year concerts, report cards, and farewells to friends who would not been seen for many months to come ... We did spend a rather extravagant weekend at Atlantis in Dubai, where we swam with Dolphins, Fed Rays and did a tour of the back of the aquarium. We took the monorail into Dubai and explored the Dubai Mall, watched the fountains and went to the 120th floor of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. What a wonderful experience for us all. Jessica had a really girlie Pr...

Gosh, it has been a while hasn't it.... So SA visited - tick Mauritius visited - tick Turned 40 - tick Back to Qatar! - tick Kids back to school - tick Kids back on holiday - tick Kids back to school again - tick thank god SA was a blast, it was fun and great to see everyone!! I miss everyone so much already. So the kids and I went to SA on our own for the first 10 days, we stayed in Johannesburg and then flew to Jeffries Bay where Steven joined us. It was lovely to spend those 10 days with Mom and Dad. Then we flew to Durban to spend some time with Andrew and drove to the Burg for a few days to enjoy a bit of a relax! We also go to see my wonderful Aunt Hil, Uncle Rob, Hazel, Alistair, Anthony and Michelle and all the 2nd cousins to our kids :-) Back on the road up to Joburg to celebrate my 40th, which was fun and wonderful to see all my friends in one spot. Felt pretty old though, gosh 40, who would have thought! Then our little wine club flew to Mauritius for 10 days (mmm 1o ...