Living the High Life...

Nikki has certainly been celebrating life since being back on Cortisone. The steroids have helped to relieve her joint pain so much and she has been moving around so much more easily - she is almost back to the point (joint-wise) that she was at a few years ago before she became ill.

As I mentioned before, Friday was the last day of her radiation program. As usual, she has made such good friends with all of the staff in the radiation unit, she will probably miss her daily trek out to Pinelands to catch up on their latest news. She designed and printed personalised labels on to mugs for each of the staff in the unit to thank them for their amazing care during her time there.

This weekend was very special for us. We had Samantha McKay (was Legg) our lifelong friend (who is more like a sister to us) come and visit from Joburg. It was an adventure down memory lane as we relived some of our loveliest (and more embarrasing) memories from the past.

We lived it up on Saturday - starting with cuppucino at a gorgeous little coffee shop in Chelsea, Wynberg, followed by a stroll along the Greenpoint promenade after which our moms joined us for High Tea at the Mount Nelson! All of our senses were indulged - from the plush sofas to the loveliest live piano music and, of course, the f-o-o-d. As hard as we tried, we were simply incapable of sampling one of everything on offer, but we certainly gave it our best shot!! More fun and laughter as we remembered our childhood and our funnier & scarier moments with our ponies and horses. Here are some pics of us at "The Nellie":

We spent the rest of the evening together at the Boyd's home and then Sam and Sandra joined us again for our traditional family lunch this afternoon at Afton before Sam had flew back to her sweet family in Joburg (sniff, sniff...). It is so good to be around people who know you and whom you know and understand you so well - it's so easy, even though we live far apart - we just pick up where we left off before and it's always so good. Thank you Sammy - you will never know how much it meant to Nix to have you here. Thank you, thank you....xxx

Our friend, Werner Stadler (Natural Photography), has uploaded some of the images of our family photo shoot to his Facebook page. If anyone wants to have a look there, the link is: http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=242618&id=597178893