We had SUCH a good weekend. With Gab known as a fairly sleepy city, we sure did a lot. I loved every new place we discovered. Late Friday afternoon we drove out to the Yacht Club at the Gaborone Dam with Helen and her partner Bill (who is here for 2.5 months from the UK), Zane, Chris, Afro and Roger. The club is open to the public on Monday through Friday and the bar at the top gave us a splendid view of this large body of water. We enjoyed our sundowners and then went down to the beach for a braai. This group likes to eat and that works for us; it seems like many of our activities are focused around food. I love that the evenings are so comfortable that I do not need a jacket.
I spent part of Saturday at the Riverwalk Mall, which has the best bookstore in Gab. It is easy to just lose myself there for an hour or so looking through travel and non-fiction books. But it also was an extremely productive morning as I was able to return two things without a long wait or hassle and I was also in and out of the bank fairly quickly. Small successes!
That evening we went out to Caravela, a Portuguese restaurant located downtown, with Helen, Bill, Rosemary, Rafa, and Zane. It was lovely sitting in their garden, which reminded us of O Portuga in Windhoek. The food was very good and it was a relaxing evening. I had the house special chicken and Russ had the traditional steak with egg in gravy.
We went to the Anglican Cathedral Sunday morning. Their first service starts at 7:30 because of the heat but they had large fans affixed to the walls. It's a wonderfully blended and vibrant congregation. After that we drove casually around the somewhat deserted city and found a bakery in the African mall and had a greasy, creamy, utterly delicious donut. Then somehow we ended up at Sanitas which is an amazing oasis in the middle of nowhere. Sanitas is a large nursery with all sorts of plants and trees. They also have a lovely tea garden and we spent another hour having the third part of our breakfast which pretty much carried us over to dinner. It was hard to even imagine we lived in the desert surrounded by so much lush foliage. I told Russ he could come here to correct his papers!
Russ really cranked out a good amount of school work. I was really impressed. He wrote four final exams which will be given in two weeks and wrote a number of reports (report cards here are in narrative form along with a grade).
Later in the afternoon we went swimming at the school's pool, which was a welcomed break in the day (and a nice perk too!) Shelley, the other American teacher, was there with her two kids as well. Last night, we poured over maps and books to get some ideas about how we might spend the December holiday which is coming up quickly. Instruction ends on the 9th and teachers are released on the 16th for a month. Stay tuned...
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