Friday July 29th 2011
Today was a little different in the sense that we split up into two groups. Dad, Aunt Binnie and I went to Mochudi and Gaborone, while Gordon and Iain stayed home. So we will alternate what each of us did, I’ll write for the trip to Mochudi and Gaborone, while Gordon will write for himself and Iain and their adventures together.
It started out like every other day, freezing cold in the morning, so cold you just don’t want to get out of bed, but bed is cold too, so you get up and have toast with our brand new toaster!! Mma Binnie and her friend had a conference in Mochudi and Dad was driving them in to Tonic’s house while Aunt Binnie navigated and I tagged along in the back. Gordon and Iain opted to stay home and help Tshenolo look after Thabang’s younger sister Carter.
Gordon and Iain's day: While they drove, we ate toast and cheese. We tried Iain’s IPod in the TV so we could watch a movie or listen to music, but it didn’t work. We found a movie called “The Condemned” the sound didn’t work and it had scratches on the disk ,so we went on a trip to find a movie after visiting a couple stored and no luck we went to the groceries store to get drinks and chips. We took a taxi back to Mma Binnie’s. For the rest of the day Iain and Tshenolo babysat and watched TV. Gordon was outside playing soccer...and almost dropped Carter on her head. He was trying to give her a piggyback ride and tried to put her down while holding ankles. Thank goodness Iain and Tshenolo have reflexes and were able to catch her before her head hit the ground and bounced.
Meanwhile, in Mochudi we got stuck behind a tractor with a trailer attached trying to get into the gate at Tonic’s house. It took awhile but with the stunning skills of 6 men, including my dad, about an hour later it made it through, when 1 guy did it in 2 tries. We dropped off the ladies and went to the museum. It was neat with a lot of the history in the area. There were many artifacts and photographs, but you couldn’t take your own pictures. After a tour through the museum, we continued on to Game City where we had lunch and shopped for groceries and, the best thing of all...an electric kettle! On the way back to Thamaga we stopped at another village to look at pottery, but the store was closed with a sign saying “Call Martin”. No signs saying: we’re closed or operating hours or anything, just a phone number and a name.
The funniest part of the day was after supper. Since Aunt Binnie and I made supper, the boys, as in Gordon and Iain had to clean up and put all the dishes away in the proper spots. If they didn’t, they weren’t going to have any breakfast or lunch. Iain, knowing that the threat was an empty one, purposely put all the dishes back in the wrong spots, just to spite Gordon. Gordon’s wails of “that doesn’t go there” or “we’re not going to eat” were always accompanied by Iain’s laughter. After some direction from me as to where certain dishes go, Gordon moved them to the right spots. Iain supervised, and washed...then supervised.
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