Literary gluttony

The December holidays are always an excellent time to catch up on my literary neglect of the year past.

I asked my parents for an Exclusive Books gift voucher for my birthday in early December, and just before the holidays I went on a book shopping spree. I was lucky to bump into a well read gentleman working at the Exclusive Books in Menlyn, who was able to recommend four amazing books to me, all of which I devoured.

The first book I read was, as below, Room by Emma Donoghue.

This book is one of the most unique, well thought out books I have yet read. It is sweet and heart breaking at the same time. Intense and funny. Intriguing and disgusting. It has a beautiful plot, and I would recommend this book to anyone. The story is of a young boy, brought up in an 11 by 11 foot room, and who finally just after his fifth birthday is made aware of a real world outside 'Room'.

Thrilling, and definitely a 5 star book!

Christmas number two

Last night we had our "second Christmas" at my mom and dad's. We had savory mince and rice (Craig's favorite), and my mom's famous peppermint crisp tart.

We opened presents after dinner, and oh what fun it was!

My sister, being the beauty that she is, made my present into a game. She picked a couple of our most memorable childhood times and made them into little presents. She gave me a tamagotchi (present one) , a new gold alice band (present two), stickers (present three), blue sherbert and a candy watch (present four). It was so sweet I literally cried- like tears would not stop coming out of my eyes! Oh and Craigy got Spongebob golf balls, ha!

Oh Christmas, Oh family, so special!

Christmas number one.

This year, Craig and I are spending Christmas in Shaka's rock (near Ballito)- just the two of us; swoooon ♥ .

The only downside is that we won't be with our families, and so we have decided to have Christmas dinners at each set of parents beforehand.

Last night was with Craig's mom- we had Avo Ritz as starters and Pasta Alfredo as a main.

Craig's mom always puts in so much effort with the decor and the Christmas tree, it's so much fun! We listened to Michael Buble (who is Christmas in my opinion) and got personalized gym towels as one of our gifts!

On to my parents tonight, yay!

Can you say dream bath?

Spent the weekend at Mabalingwe Nature Reserve with mates.

Apart from the awesomeness of the weekend itself, by far one of the best experiences was waking up 05:30am on Saturday morning (I had passed out drunk not feeling my best at about 9pm the previous night, so I had plenty of beauty sleep), and climbing into this beaut of a bath to watch the sunrise.

What a view!

And so the obsession begins...

This beauty belongs to me as of Saturday. The lovely miss engaged Jessica and I, went galavanting, and I happened to take her to Karoo.

This is a lovely plot of land that houses a sweet little restaurant, pottery studio, gift shop, and then, my favorite of all favorites; an antique/ curio shop.

I saw him sitting all by himself- thought he looked really pretty, and starting playing with him. Smitten was I, and that's how he ended up with me.

I now realize the obsession with cameras, what awesome little gadgets!