What a boring time I've had lately! Everyone in this house has taken a turn to be sick, change of season I suppose...
The latest news around here is that the little pup got a new name! He is called Ambrosius and he is already on his way to the Netherlands to join the Dutch trail... Shame, he is squashed really tightly into an envelope, hope he gets there soon!
More news is that Dilbert and HitchaRideDooey left this week. I was really sad because I had made good friends with them and now I am the only ToyVoyager left in the house... here we are saying our goodbyes...
I'm just left with the raggle tag of rescued bears and that monkey who does nothing but cause trouble all day long. REALLY!!! Fi should just take him back or even better, release him into the wild (and I really mean the wild, like the bushes or something. ) He hangs off high places and then when you least expect it he falls down on your head. Very annoying. They all leave here next week - Fi says that will be an adventure too. Something to look forward to I suppose...
.....SIGH...... I'm so bored... Natalie is home too as she is just getting over a bad cold.... she is bored as well... Fi says if we don't all stop sighing she may just go mad, and we are all under her feet she can't get anything done....SIGH... oops!
Fi made us both get in the car...maybe she is taking Nats back to school..
Hang on this is not school! What is this place?
WOW! These trees are so weird! The trunk is green and the branches...
Fi says it is called a fever tree. The leaves are used in traditional medicine for coughs and fevers. It is a type of thorn tree. It only grows in wet areas, Fi says Jo'burg has definitely been a wet area this summer! The rain has hopefully ended now. Winter in Jo'burg is dry.
Enough of the Biology lesson already, can we please go inside to see what they have here?
Can you belive it? NO CAMERA'S ALLOWED!!! It's not a bank or the houses of parliament...it's a GARDEN CENTER! Sheesh, the people in this town are so paranoid...
Well you'll just have to use your imagnations to see all the interesting little shops and the restuarants and the plants...Oh! The beautiful plants...inside plants, outside plants, water plants, real plants, fake plants, little flowers, big trees, brightly coloured pansies everywhere ready for winter beds... too beautiful.
Oh ho ho! An outdoor play area and... another one! We went into the one where you pay by the hour, the first one was full of toddlers and their gossipy moms....boring.
We had the place to ourselves...wheeeeee!
Natalie and I made sure we went on EVERYTHING and used up every minute of the hour we had.
Sandpit:
Jumping castle:
Slide:
Wheeeeeeeeeee! I went flying off at the end because I was so small but Fi caught me in mid air! She said it was like being in a circus....
I climbed up the knotted rope, easy peasy lemon squeezy!
This one was a little more tricky because I was too small to reach the bottom, why don't these people think of small bears when they build these things?
I'm going to make it, I know I am!
See?
All that climbing was thirsty work... Um... Nats? May I share? Thanks, you're a doll.
And Fi.... 
Scrumptious!
Okay, okay, okay, I'm ready, what's next?
Hmmm, not sure that I would want to put my paws on those grubby handles even if I could reach them... Yuk!
Thank Nats! Let's go speed freak!
This is how they stop the kids escaping...
Just kidding! That's how they stop the MOM"S escaping and leaving the kids behind... ha ha ha... Okay, it's just a regular Jo'burg security feature...
Well our hour was up but not our energy... so we went on a few rides. Nats thought I should be buckled in, I didn't think it was necessary... please, I'm a BEAR!!!
EEEEK! What an extreme ride, luckily Natalie came to my rescue...or I would have gone flying again!
Okay, enough of that - let's go buy some flowers... Wow! A little trolley - especially for children, how sweet. Natalie tells me that she usually climbs in it and Shane pushes her around. Speaking of Shane, I bet he will sulk when he hears that we were having fun whilst he was at school.
So, Fi, what are we doing with the plants hmm? A job for another day? What? How lazy are you? Okay, okay, tomorrow then....
