I am so sad! Threadbear has a girilfriend...all the best ones are taken.
And she is so sweet I can't even steal him away from her! Well, there is no shortage of bears in this house, must be some other handsome ones in the crowd...sigh...
To cheer me up Fi took me and Pinky Bear with to her beautician, Claire, this morning. We had to drop the children off at school first, but the power went off, so there were no traffic lights working. What a nightmare. It took 45 minutes to go 6 kilometers (3.7 miles). Of course, as soon as we got the children into the school grounds the traffic lights came back on! Well we eventually got to meet Claire, she let us sit on the treatment chair.
Then Claire asked if we wanted the same done as Fi...
We were about to say 'of course!" till we found out Fi was having her eyebrows waxed...aaarrrrggggghhhhh! Stay away from my fur you crazy woman!!!!
We decided to have a pedicure instead, Claire told us to choose a colour nail polish that we liked...wow! So many choices...
I of course, chose pink... such a lovely colour, and it goes with my...well everything I suppose!
Once we were all prettied up, we got back in the car and headed off to Fi's friend's post box for her (Fi is the unofficial postmaster general among her friends!) She collects all their post for them. No one gets street delivery, it all goes to post boxes like this..
Fi's post box is at the main Post Office in a huge shopping centre, so that is where we headed next...
She parked on the roof to show us the view.
It is funny that on this side it is all farms but directly behind us it is all urban (but a great big wall blocks the view of that)
This is part of the shopping centre. It is called Northgate -there is also a Westgate, Southgate and an Eastgate oddly enough. All service the four corners of Johannesburg, with dozens, probably even hundreds, of smaller shopping centres in between and a few other massive ones too. Because of the crime in Johannesburg, people feel safer in big shopping areas rather than at little corner shops. She says this is a false sence of security!
This is the Coca - Cola Dome, where Expos are held. It is absolutely massive. They hold concerts in there too. This weekend there is an extreme motor show. Guess we won't be seeing that then.
We did a bit of shopping looking for "Bear spares", don't worry I am not falling apart! Threadbear needs them for all the bears coming into Bear Central. Lots of them are damaged in some way or other. Our next port of call was the animal shelter (the SPCA) thrift shop where we were (but of course) looking for more bears (Fi is obsessed with bears at the moment).
I remembered that this was where Threadbear was found , so I was kind of hoping that we might find someone else as interesting... no such luck on the bear front...but I did find this lady dressed in my favourite pink and guess what her name was? Fiona! Can you believe it?
Hmm I wonder what's for lunch. All that shopping has made me hungry...
