Friends

We had a WONDERFUL break away as a family this past weekend. We met up with 2 of Bryn's high school friends and their families (Neil and Pauline Mardon and their children and Shaun and Tamlyn Bouwer). The children all got on so well and the adults spent the days chatting, cooking (we may have just over catered on the food a tad, hey, Pauline??!), laughing and catching up. The 'boys' enjoyed some touch rugby, make shift golf and braaiing. We loved spending an entire Saturday beside the pool. The weather was just gorgeous. Just so you know, our boys were kind of forced into buying SPEEDOS in order to allowed to swim at the public pool. Crazy rule, but it did make for a wonderful photo opportunity and lots of laughs. Find Neil and Bryn sporting their sexy brown and black numbers below.

We were in desperate need of a break and that's certainly what we got. Madison lost her tooth just before we left for our weekend, so she brought it along in a huge empty jewellery box, hoping that the tooth fairy would fill it with cash, I suppose. She did end up finding her in the hills of Belgium.

We left the Hague on Friday afternoon at about 3:30. Bad mistake. We got stuck in quite a bad traffic jam. 37 km to be exact. A 2 hour journey ended up becoming a 5 1/2 hour car ride filled with singing, games and lessons on patience. Problem though. What do you do when ya gotta go and you're stuck in traffic? Bryn eventually caved and pulled over and relieved himself. So funny...as soon as he had jumped out the car to water the plants, another few cars pulled over to follow suit. I married a leader! He's not one to be afraid to be different, that's for sure :)