christmas spirit

saturday night:

the mongoose and i went to cafe erte to use the net, and have some coffee. place has become even sadder than before. swak. protoplasm joined us, and we left.

we started off the night at call-a-pizza. good music, but there were only about five people there. we went to getafix, which was also practically empty. bummer. so we missioned long street, in which every party was falling off the rails. at 3am. rediculous.

we tried opium, which actually looked like a great party - but even at 3am they weren't letting people in anymore. that really killed me. there was no way of knowing, but if we'd gone there first... nevermind. the mongoose walked into sliver, and walked out impressed at the party, but confused as to the lack of women :P

so we said goodbye to protoplasm, and went back to getafix. that lasted all of half an hour. then we farked off home. i crashed on the couch, too tired and lazy to go downstairs.

yesterday:

we got up around 12, finally left the apartment at 12.40, and made it to gordon's bay around 13.20. not bad. we got to the sandman's folks' place just as they were in their final unwrapping round. it was really nice to see everybody, and we handed our gifts over - i was not only embarrassed because i didn't know if the gifts were good or not (i don't know how these things work!), but i wasn't sure of the sandman's girlfriend's name (which i had, strangely enough, gotten right). but their reactions were a gift to me :)

we went to the beach - sending the mongoose in to his first real ocean experience, and spent the day braaiing and chatting and generally enjoying ourselves. the food was fantastic.

sandman, his girlfriend and the two of us went for a walk in the evening, which netted us some incredible photos - we'll try to post as soon as possible. we got back, and said rushed goodbyes to everyone as we tried to make the narnia movie - we really did hurry, but we got there too late. sucked. so we returned, chatted a while, and then drove back to cape town.

all in all - amazing christmas ^_^

we went to rent a movie, and i had to pay R50 to unblock my account... i've now changed the account code, so my nieces and nephew can no longer screw me over like that. right pissed me off.

we rented the devil's advocate, but we were both so tired that we only got through about half an hour before crashing.

i went to sleep at my sister's again, and i slept badly again. i think i'll just sleep on the couch from now on.

i just found out that we missed the first night of hanukkah last night :$
oh well. at least there're seven more nights.