Thursday - Friday, June 6-7 delivering mail to Lady Smith

Thursday we prepared for our trip out of town by picking up the mail at the mission office for the areas we planned to go to. Sometimes the missionaries have to wait a long time to get their mail, so we try to pick up all mail at the mission office before we go anywhere.  The mail totally filled up our entire trunk (boot in SA). We also had to get groceries...out of everything, and gas up the car. Then back to the flat and back on the computer. I found a sound and lighting guy, Enrico, that is willing to help us look for a venue. He asked for a list of places we already looked, so I sent him a full page of venues and haven't heard from him since...I think he hates to admit that he can do no better...Ha.

Friday, we called the mission office and they had more letters for us to take to the missionaries in the New Castle District, so we popped in there and picked them up. We then took off for Lady Smith, a very scenic trip, and arrived at the Peaches and Cream bed and breakfast that we stayed at previously with the Murdocks. Since it was only about 3:30 when we arrived, we checked in and unpacked, called the Wildings (Senior Couple in Lady Smith) and asked them to breakfast the next morning at Peaches and Cream, before our ground breaking ceremony at Ezakheni at 11:00. They wanted to get there early and it is about a 40 minute drive, so we decided to meet at 7:45 for breakfast.

Since we were pretty free after that and hadn't eaten since breakfast, we decided to get an early dinner. Our landlord recommended the Ginny Fowl, so we headed over there for dinner. It turned out to be excellent food; however, when we tried to pay our bill, they would not take the credit card (our PA card from the church). This was a bit frustrating, but we paid with a personal card. The last time we used the card was when we went to Swaziland and it worked fine.
We had trouble sleeping, between allergies, light from outside shining into the windows and a noisy heater, but finally managed to fall asleep.