So we have spent the last five days visiting family and friends in England. We started off in Manchester seeing the girls and boys I used to work with at the Christie which was so great. It felt like just yesterday that I was there. We then went to Sheffield and stayed at Emma and Ryans place, Alana came along too so we had a great couple of nights with awesome friends. It was then down to London, where we spent three nights with James and Julie. I caught up with Megan, Jason and Michelle which was so nice and then Vicki on Thursday. Wednesday night we had some dirty old Mexian where Julie and I polished of a jug of margerita's, so good. Thursday we had a lovely night out at a Belgium beer cafe ... read more

Pilanesberg was just incredible! We got picked up by our guide form the airport and started the 3 hour drive out to the park. As soon as we got there we took a couple of hours and went on our first game drive, within a few minutes we saw our first animal, a Black Backed Jackel, followed by a family of Warthog. I can definatley say that the Warthog were my favourite animals, they were just so cute. On the drive we saw Wilderbeast, Zebra, lots of variations on Buck, Impala and Kudu along with some Giraffe. We were just on our way to the campsite when we spotted some Elephant. We drove along a little further and smack bang in the middle of the road was a huge bull Elephant. We ended up having to ... read more

Well what can I say.......... Shark cage diving was an experience that we will definately never ever forget. It was epic! The day started off pretty calmly, we had the most incredible weather which is really lucky considering how terrible the weather has been in Cape town this last week. We were picked up about 9:00am and started the 2 hour drive out to Gansbaai which would have been fine except none of the 13 people on a 12 seater bus realised the diving was two hours away. Lets just say we all got to know each other extremely well in that 2 hours. Needless to say the drive was amazing, absolutely beautiful. It was quite surreal for me to be driving through towns like Somerset West and Hermanus which I have memories of, but are ... read more

Today we had the most fantastic day with my uncle Chappie. He took us to the Cradle of Man Kind, which is where they have found some the earliest evidence of early man kind. We started out at the origin centre in Johannesburg, then headed to Marupeng which is large museum/interactive centre where they discribe the development of man kind. From here we went to the Sterkfotein caves which was just incredible... so vast! Unbelievable to think that the rocks we were standing on were well over 2 million years old! Aaron luckily also got to see his first lions in a semi wild enviroment we saw them from the road at a breeding centre. Which was pretty cool... read more

Hello, family and friends. We leave on our huge adventure in a couple of days. We are both very very excited. We decided to start a travel blog so all those interested could keep track of what we are up to and see our latest pics, so we will try and keep it updated as often as possible. Trix is very excited about spending time with my parents and her best pal Cassie for three months. Anyway off to finish our last days of work, the next time you will hear from us will be in South Africa, where Aaron will get to meet my grandparents for the first time. Yay....... read more