God's Country

Went to crystal springs (Mpumalanga) for the weekend with the family: Dad, Step mom, brother, brother’s girlfriend and Mr O. I must tell you that the thought of a family weekend doesn’t really appeal to me, my family is slightly dysfunctional to say the least and my dad can make the most pleasant things extremely stressful for all involved. But to my surprise and delight the weekend was a really enjoyable success.

Was a bit of a disaster getting down, Mr O and I took half day and we were suppose to meet the rest of the clan up there at around 5 or so. First was tyre trouble – 11/2 hrs delay. The just past the Middleburg toll there was a crazy storm so we stopped at the garage to wait for it to clear (was so bad that when we were in the shop at the garage we couldn’t even see the car) another delay. Once back o the highway traffic was moving at a snails pace, so was ready to kill by this stage, only to find out that the cause of the delay was a seven vehicle accident (there didn’t seem to be anyone seriously injured) that must of happened due to one idiot driving well like an idiot in the storm, once we had navigated past the engine pieces scattered across the highway from a seriously f#cked Matiz it seemed smooth sailing until we came to a dead holt 50kms from nowhere, We were told there was a diesel spill and it would be an hour before we could go… So I entertained myself by making friends with the donkey that had come to see what all the commotion was all about and prancing around in the rain.

Eventually when we go moving again we could see that it was not just a diesel spill, but two bakkies had collided and there was engine and diesel everywhere, it was horrendous.

So we eventually arrived at Crystal Springs in the rain and really shit fog at about 8:30, I was grumpy so went to be J

Woke up to the most amazing view on Saturday, the log cabins look over the whole valley, it was breath taking. It is the reason they call it God’s country…. Spent the rest of the day doing the touristy thing, sight seeing and such, it really is beautiful!!!! Took 400 pictures in a day and I half, figure if I take 6 pictures of the same thing I am bound to get at least one decent one…


The Beautiful views aside this weekend was really great for Mr O and myself, felt like the old us again….

I am really stiff today though, from the morning hikes, rock climbing to get a better view of things, crouching in caves and all other wonderful things, but was worth it…..