Two weeks ago Helen and I jumped into the car to drive down to the Natal midlands. We were on our way to spend the night at Gowrie Farm, the same place we stayed in Nottingham Road after our wedding. Obviously this time around it didn't involve a massive wedding party beforehand, just a drive! We had dinner at the (always fantastic) Bierfassl and allowed ourselves to actually relax after some very busy work days.
The next morning was started with a VERY cold 9 holes of golf, a fantastic brunch on the meander and lunch with Andrea and John at Andrea's parents farm in Boston. We popped off to Hilton for Mark and Candy's wedding and had a great time catching up with everyone on both sides of the wedding party. The accommodation was less than amazing, with Helen and I sharing a single room with two others (there was meant to be a 5th person in there as well, but we don't think he ever made it out of the wedding venue!)
Sunday was spent having tea at Nick and Ang Parry's new place in Hilton and then popping in to Nottingham road again to see Carolyn and Jax before driving back to Joburg.
Since then, the world was put on fast forward...
I went into lectures last Thursday and spent Thursday through Sunday lunchtime getting back into Operations management and Leading people for results. On Sunday I popped off to the airport and jumped onto a flight to San Francisco. And here I am...
Three of us, Justin Bradshaw, Steven Goodrich and myself, flew out on Sunday evening, arrived in San Francisco on Monday afternoon and went straight into two days of back to back meetings with a potential partner here in the States from Tuesday through till Wednesday evening.
We had a good laugh when collecting the rental car as they gave us a black Hummer H3! So we've been cruising around like gangsters since Monday. We didn't have too much free time on our hands, but were able to go out and drive over the Golden Gate bridge today to Sausalito and then back into the city. We drove down the extremely windy and steep Lombard road and gave loads of tourists a photo opportunity with our massive car doing all the twists.
I'm all packed up and ready to go now, it's Friday evening and Steve left earlier this afternoon on a BA flight back via London. Justin and I connect through to Atlanta in the morning and then on from there to Joburg. We are going forward by 9 hours, so jet lag should be fun...
I'm back in lectures this coming weekend again, so no rest at all, but this is the life I guess ;)
