Friday
Dear Elsie,
Today was the day I got up early and by just after 10am I was at the airport and hanging out waiting for my flight to Johannesburg. Teddy is with me. I am about to send you a voice note because I know I’m going to miss speaking to you tomorrow.
The landing in Johannesburg was perfect.
Julian & Gerrie arrived as I walked out the door and we came straight to the house to meet this special little person…
This evening we are having a braai. Tomorrow morning we need to be up bright and early because our flight is at 9am, so we should be leaving for the airport at 6am. I have been in Whatsapp contact with our Airbnb host in St Helena and he is ready for us. I also seem to have got myself a bedroom instead of sleeping on the sleeper couch in the lounge. I’ll take the bedroom for 10 pounds a night!
I’m hoping this won’t be the last blog until I get back. I’m hoping all of Mike’s help in getting my little Linux laptop set up to use as little data as possible will work. I’m hoping the SIM cards we have waiting for us at the gift shop at St Helena Airport will be functional on my cell phone. In the event of me not getting this right, it may just be this is the last blog until I get back and if so, I’ll put up the whole lot of them on my return. Usually when we are in out of the way places with limited internet I have managed to keep the blog going, but that is when Mike is with me. He has tried to get me as ready as possible, so let me see if I can get it all to work.
Missing Mike. Missing David. And tomorrow I miss speaking to the Swellendam family. Funny thing is when we were in Italy, Mike had Covid so he couldn’t come to St Moritz with us. We went to St Moritz together. Now we are going to St. Helena. Very excited. We pray for a safe trip.
Psalm 93:5
Your statutes, Lord, stand firm;
It’s not about now – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Gran xx 🙂