back home in our new home

Wow - 11th of April was my last post.  Guess that's what happens when you plan a wedding in 3 months.

First thing on my mind to mention is the awesome response from friends and family to our wedding. And the awesome generosity.  It's that generosity that's given us the ability to start settling in down here in Durbs.  So if you were around to give us a wedding gift - thank you so much.  We still have some writing and organising to do before sending out official thank yous - but know that we're feeling very thankful.

Man our place is a mess.  I mean - i'm used to living in mess as my family knows - but for some reason i'm compelled to thoroughly clean our new place. I've been vacuuming and mopping a lot.  Kelly has been organising everything a lot.  But there are still hoards of boxes lying around - some have by default become categorised as furniture - for example: the computer desk box in the entrance hall, the coffee table box in the lounge, the dressing table box (with mirror on top) in the bedroom - but most of our boxes just plain get in the way.

Our place is also great - we've got a partial view each side of the building in front's stupid roof.  You can tell it's a stupid roof by the way it blocks our view.  But you know - we're very happy with what we've got.  Come and visit and you'll have candle-lit dinners with us by the window, looking over the stadium and down to the beach.  We've actually been having said dinners every night since we moved in. Can you believe it?  Every night - except when we've been out of the house, we've sat at the window eating by candle light - and who says there's no romance in marriage.  Kelly's desk that we brought from her room in the house-share (which is a small square table) is our dining room table - we're planning to expand it to an 8-seater so that we can have people over to sample Kelly's delicious meals - not the least of which were a scrumptious beef pie that we wholeheartedly consumed on Monday, and a chicken casserole with lime rice and sweet potato the week before.  The rooms are spacious and we have parquet floors and a picture rail around the room.  We've been asked not to make holes in the walls and just use the picture rail, but we're just gonna have to drill if we want shelves and other heavy stuff. Ok that was a particularly boring sentence.  I'm sensing the need to stop at this point.

I could blog about Zanzibar but don't have the pictures with me so we'll do that another time.  Can't believe we've only been home for 2 weeks now - it feels like honeymoon was ages ago.

We've also got internet at home so i'll be able to be more socially networked on the interweb.

Ok peace,

Love to you my readers,

Jamo