Monday, April 30, 2007
The Baby is Here!!!!!
On April 21st at 6;03pm, my sister, Jaclyn, had her baby. A bit tense...Jac didn't realize she was in labour all night--she didn't realize the pain seemed to come and go at regular intervals until they were 4 minutes apart. At the hospital they decided to do a C-Section since the baby was breach. The baby is 3 weeks early so she's really tiny--only about 1.86 kg or a little less than 4 pounds. But she is absolutely gorgeous. These were taken right after she was born:
Big thanks to Lizzie for helping Jackie and the new baby out at a critical moment.
And some more with mommy:
and a couple with daddy:
And some close ups of the baby during the first week in the hospital:
Big thanks to Lizzie for helping Jackie and the new baby out at a critical moment.
Okay...she really is pregnant!
The last entry, my sister was pregnant but I couldnt find the picture. Here are a couple she took when she was about 7 and 7 and a half half months pregnant: 
She's having a baby...
I got back to South Africa in mid January and my sister had some news for me...she's having a baby!!! Shocking news to say the least. But she seems happy with it which is all that matters. She is due in mid/late May. In late Janauary Jac and I went on a weekend road trip to Cirtusdal--a very small little village a couple of hours from Cape Town. It's hot in the city (season's are reversed) and Jac's place doesn't have a pool so we hit the road. I thought we took more picures but this is the only one I could find:
More on the baby next...Nice gig if you can get it...
If I ever whine about my job, someone smack me. Every job definitely has it's challenges whether it's a butcher, baker or candle stick maker, but every job hoepfully also has its upside (if any one reading this doesn't agree...call me and I'll help you find a new job). Honestly, my job is pretty good. I never could have dreamed back when I was causing trouble in Grade 9 at Northern High School that I could ever end up where I am. I have a great job...I can't lie. Work is work, that's why they call it that--otherwise, they'd call it a day at the beach. Turns out that in my current job, often it is a day at the beach! In early February, we launched a couple of new partners in Mauritius. I didn't even know where it was, other than it is the equivalent of the Caribbean for South Africans. (FYI...it's a small island East of Madigascar...the big island to the east of southern Africa. And this is what it looks like: 
Mauritius has a history of people from India being brought to the island hundreds of years ago as slaves and the Indian culture is still pretty prevalent there. We did a driving tour across the island and saw some of that. Below you will see a statue of the Shiva...absolutely mammoth...on the way to the Little Ganges.
They also have a ton of tea plantations that are just there by the side of the road as well as sugar cane by the acre:
Mauritius has a history of people from India being brought to the island hundreds of years ago as slaves and the Indian culture is still pretty prevalent there. We did a driving tour across the island and saw some of that. Below you will see a statue of the Shiva...absolutely mammoth...on the way to the Little Ganges.
They also have a ton of tea plantations that are just there by the side of the road as well as sugar cane by the acre:
So, this is my life...some of the time. I really can't complain..and if i do, smack me!
Hangin' out in London...
As much as I'm supposed to be based in South Africa, it seems I travel a lot out of the country! In early December, I got to London for a week for a workshop at the Slough office. First time I'd been in the new office and overall, very nice. While there I saw a couple of things that were in direct opposition to each other--and pretty funny as a result. Have a look at the pictures below...Slough is a fairly busy are of London but in the middle of a very busy intersection, there is a very traditional English pub. I didn't go in, but it seemed like what I think of when I thiknk of England...in an area of a city that could be any major city in the 
world:
world:And a little further on the way back to the hotel, there is a little taste of North America...or almost:
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