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woke up later than previous days. my parents slept even later, till noon. weather did the usual south african thing. that is, fierce sun in the morning, then big storm clouds coming up from all the evaporated water, and dark skies. now tropical thunderstorm, and it's only 14h45 in the afternoon. the rain is positively bucketing down on the car, along with lightening and thunder.

went via Liberty Liqours to return some wine that had gone very off. We also purchased some more alcohol of various types to supply us for the days of christmas and boxing day. some barefoot dude in front of us at the checkout bought R1200 worth of booze, now you might think thats only CDN$200 worth, but booze is about 4-5 times cheaper here in south africa than canada.

We are on the M4 highway northbound, stuck in traffic because of a traffic accident. got passed it now. 3 vehicle pileup. here things work differently. 7 private tow-truck companies, 1 ambulence, and thats 20 odd minutes aftetr the accident. no cops or firetrucks yet. Yeah, things are different here.

We dropped Greg at Damian after that. Next we went to the new Gateway mall. It still has some way to

With the local stores at the Gateway mall I have found a few stores that bear a striking resemblence to those in North America. Mr Price is Army & Navy. Govan Mani is The Sony Store. Checkers is Superstore, right down to the colour scheme. Funny how it goes, but I suppose that is the way life is.

The Wave House is impressive, in the style of mini-water parks, it is a set of surfing wave generators. serious surfing waves (see pictures later).

the whole time we were there we saw nobody that we knew until we were nearly done, when we ran into Jane McIntosh, we finished our shopping and went with her to the house she is presently taking care of for a drink.

put our laundry in the washing machine there and went out for dinner with her to a thai resturant. came back and put the laundry in the dryer. i was sitting in the lounge playing Bejeweled on my handspring and my parents were sitting around the pool chatting to Jane.

around 01h5, we went out to leave to find our ca has been broken into. called the police flying squad, who took 15 min to get to us. they took statements and had a look. the amateur burgler smashed the rear left window cutting himself up badly in the process. he got away with our 35mm Pentax camera and a big box of peppermints. luckily he didn't get into the trunk, although he did try to, as we had a lot of stuff in there. the police stuff took half an hour, then we drove home slowly and went to bed.