Here we are half way through our African Adventure. It has been quite the trip so far full of ups and downs. Years from now I am sure we will reflect on how amazing this opportunity was for our family.

• We have successfully found public access parks and other neat destinations around the city.
• We have navigated ourselves around a heavily populated and huge city (27th largest in the world in fact) – Important to note that Jimmy just received his drivers license one week prior to our departure from Canada. He is the one who does all the driving in Johannesburg. Go Jimmy!
• Jimmy has done an amazing job at finding himself some cool skate spots and is always on the hunt for pools to skate.
• We have found a rhythm for our family in a strange new place.
• We have become accustomed to living with very few personal belongings. We each brought one bag of clothes and have not bought very much during our time here. This has been very freeing for me. It puts more focus on what is really important in life.
• We have learned to cope with my frequent departures from the family to work in Botswana.
• Claire & Rhys have developed so much while we have been in Africa in physical and emotional growth. They are very adaptable kids who are wonderful travelers. Like Jimmy and I, the kids enjoy the excitement of travel and adventure; wanderlust. They both like to colour and draw. They are little artists indeed! They love spending time outdoors and using sticks to draw in the dirt or drive their monster trucks and diggers through the dirt. We have running races everywhere and they are very competitive with each other. They love kicking around a soccer ball and going on walks. They attend preschool 5 days out of the week for 1/2 days. This was something new for us as in Canada they attended a preschool 2 days/ week for 2 hours.
• We have had some amazing day and overnight trips. The Safari in Madikwe was a definite highlight.

All this said, we do look forward to returning home. We miss our friends and our family. We can live a free life in Canada that isn’t really possible in Joburg.

We have a few more fun adventures planned which will be really fun so stay tuned!