and Braeden still helped me to fold a LOT of brochures ...
he was very good at it!
but he wasn't feeling very hungry
this piece of toast became a gun which was used for taking potshots at passer-bys
then he saw someone walking along with a cigarette and decided to copy them (!)
i got the message at this point ;o)
it was a clothing factory about 5 km from where we live
the firemen were having a difficult time because the water supply was very intermittant
we drove by again about 2 hours later and they were still struggling to extinguish the flames
wherever we travel, we tend to take much longer than most people to arrive at our destination, because we usually get wonderfully side-tracked along the way! 
this was a dramatic fire we saw next to the road while travelling between Rosendal and Bethlehem
we drove up one of the 'off-shoot' roads in the Golden Gate Nature Reserve in the Free State, got the bikes off the car and road all the way down. what a setting!
although they are not indigenous butterflies - it was exciting for the boys to see, first-hand, each stage of the life-cycle of the butterfly
they were shown the eggs on the leaves by such an enthusiastic and highly knowledgable guide at the facility
there weren't too many caterpillars the day we were there - but we found a few :o)
however there were lots of examples of the pupa stage, and here our guide shows us some of the pupa in various stages of development.
this one's wings were still damp
the boys were amazed at how unafraid the butterflies were of us
that was ticklish! :o)
on sunday's cycling trip, we stopped at a new African fusion restaurant called Moyo, which has a juice bar with a difference! Freshly squeezed sugar cane juice!
The juice was devoured very quickly and proclaimed 'yummy!'
their faces had been painted Moyo style -see below
which was followed up with a 'monkey's-wedding' (basically jelly and custard) :o)
and the sugar-high which followed had to be worked off!
