Showing posts with label camping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label camping. Show all posts

Camping Weekend - Through My Eyes

    A HUGE Thank You to our 26 friends who got together for the Camping Weekend at Buffelspoort. 
    Thank you to Irene for the surprise gifts
    Thank you to Dirk for being the Camp Photographer
    Thank You to everyone who helped me look after my girls and kept them busy. 
    They love you all and trust you so much.
    They are so comfortable floating around between everyone like little social butterflies.

    A Thank You  to EVERYONE for a great time! 
    It was great to hang out with friends and have everyone together again.

    Our Arrival at the Venue


    How Many people does it take to put up a two-man tent?


    KK and her Froggie Friend. 
    She terriorised this poor wee frog until we finally felt sorry for him and set him free.



    At the Camp -
    13 tents and 26 people!


    Some of the camp views


    Dirk suffering from a hangover



    Dirk
    Our official Camp Photographer. 
    Wait until you see some of the pix he took!


    The Super Tube


    Chris emerging from the Super Tube


    Megan


    Ria


    Mandy and Kaylin



    The Walk down to the restaurant and shop


    Norman, Percy and Chris getting ready to make breakfast

    Richard and Megan in the pool


    Richard and Megan on the Super Tube



    Shaun and Kaylin in the pool


    Shaun and a very frightened little Kaylin on the Super Tube


    Shaun on his own


    Aaah LOVE
    Richard and Chey


    Kaylin and Megan


    Stralicia


    Tammy and Donovan


    Ria, Mandy and Melanie relaxing at the pool


    Piet, Norman and Chris


    2 of the five pools they have at Buffelspoort


    My Gorgeous Girls enjoying the pool
    Megan and Kaylin



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Camping Weekend - Camp Fuckers

    There are always Camp Fuckers to be found..


    First, you can't miss the South African Rugby Fanatics who buy a bakkie (aka truck) in their team's exact colour, kit out their cars with stickers and flags, wear the team shirt, the team hat and dress the obese wife and ice-cream munching kids in exact same sleeveless vests.  Very attractive.
    The men parade around the camp with a ciggie in one hand, a beer in the other, their beer gut hanging over their short-shorts and their camp "pozzie" has every single purchasable Team paraphernalia that you can lay your hands on at the teeny weeny Camp Shop!  Team tattoos are a must!

    Megan parking her bike next to a blue bulls kids bicycle with the Blue Blues Bakkie in the background.


    The Second lot of Camp Fuckers you get are the Fitness Fanatics

    These two dooshbags emerged at Dawn's Crack to road cycle from the resort to God-Knows where.... 
    Yes, I do mean bicycle on the road for miles on end, complete with all the cycling gear and please note the designer 4x4 trailer with the trendy tent on top and home-made camper in the background.



    It was then time to walk around the resort and find some more Camp Fucker types.

    We Found the Television Fanatics. 

    These plonkers decided it was a super fly idea not only to haul the television with them,
    but completed the quiet bush trip with their Satelite Dish.  Hell, we'll even put up a 1970's floral umbrella to keep it cool!?
    So much for a relaxing weekend away from home -
    Why Bother???



    Another Satelite Dish Camp Fucker! 
    They place was crawling with them...


    Then we came across this guy, he was obviously a Vehicle Fanatic.
    Clearly incredibly proud of his particular mode of transportation...
    with his bright red tractor with sun canopy and bright blue trailer!

    It turns out his rivetting job was to drive around the camp site and pick up all the rubbish
    (in his designer Jeep T-shirt, if you please)
    Don't you love a guy who dresses for work...


    When I initially walked past this next caravan of Camp Fuckers, I couldn't believe what I saw! 

    Unfortunately there were too many family members sitting in a semi-circle outsite for me to take an inconspicuous pic at the time....but picture this....
    All the adults were sitting outside while they baby was strapped into the pram parked about 6 inches from the blaring television screen.  WTF?  Digital baby sitter. 
    Not only that, placed in the middle of the semi-circle of giggling Camp Fuckers, was a naked toddler happily splashing in a bucket of water. 
    The resort has four different pools, people and your child is swimming in a bucket??

    I decided to walk back this way and see if I could try my luck again at getting a shot...but this time their caravan and tent appeared empty but the television was still blaring!



    I have loads more Camp Fucker stories to tell....
    of women in full make up jobs - lipliner, lipgloss, fake eyelashes, the works! 
    Who goes camping with their make up bag? 

    I spotted more Female Camp Fuckers in the abultion blocks primping themselves to perfection with hairdriers and flatening irons, eye lash curlers and tooth whitening kits...I kid you not.

    There were teenagers posing in short skirts and cropped tops, dangling earings and shoes with heels
    *sigh*

    Why pretend to like it?

    All of these Camp Fakers, I mean Fuckers should just stay at home and go clubbing for feks sake.

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Wilderness Weekend - What Happens in the Tent Stays in the Tent

    Off camping this weekend!

    I just can't wait because I really need this little break.  Its been a hectic and stressful couple of weeks, at home and at work.  Its also going to be the first time in a good few years that all our camping group members are all going to be together at the same time in one place.  Lots of catching up to do.

    I am taking Friday afternoon off and leaving early...will take loads of pix.


    Some Camping Tools


    and just a little joke thrown in for good measure.


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This One Time At Band Camp...

    All You HKGK Camping Group Members will be soopa excited to know that payment has been made in full for our HKGK Group October camping trip to one of our favourite nearby camp spot.
    Lets now talk about the possible Boeresports. Yes or no?  This is the last time I'm going to ask -then I'm giving it up for a bad idea and we can just have a chill weekend in our hammocks sipping wine and taking over the Family Resort (as we normally do).


    Email me your thoughts to gillian@homemakers-sa.co.za or leave a comment below.


    Today, I got an email from Rita from Reservations asking to send through our completed Group Form. (it is basically an indenity form that one of the group members has to complete so that at least one individual will  take responsibility for the bill). 


    I faxed through the completed form with haste so as not to delay our booking reservation.  This form had a section to complete your "group name".  Without thinking I completed "H.K.G.K".


    On the form as a special request, I also asked for our stands to be located close to the ablution blocks which is always good with small children.  I also requested to make use their large grass verge near the entrance on the Saturday for our Boeresports (which we will still confirm).


    Resort Rita received my fax and almost immediately emailed me back saying she'd spoken to the Resort Manager and he needed to know what "H.K.G.K" (our group name) stands for.  I wondered why on earth they'd need this information?  I mean we aren't a bunch of international spies who are smuggling in high calibre weapons ready to cock our guns at every man, woman or beast staying at the resort.  We are just a loud bunch of regular goofballs who get together and go on camping trips and tours.


    Our camp name stands for "Hier Kom Groot Kak" but I certainly wasn't about to tell Resort Rita that!  We could quite easily be turned away and denied entry.  Rita would reserved the right for us to enter in a heartbeat.  She most certainly has "the powa".  

    I think she was eyeballing us as possible trouble makers or even worse - undercover Health Inspectors armed with swabs and other CSI-type chemicals ready to bust their festering ablutions. 


    So, I first asked Resort Rita why she needed this information and told her we are just a bunch of family and friends that get together and often visit the resort.  After stalling her for a bit, I eventually I told her the initials stood for "Hier Kom Gauteng Kampers". 

    I suspect she may have thought we were some feisty church group wanting to preach the gospel to innocent fellow campers or something equally ridiculous. 

    Who knows what Resort Rita thought?


    So I lied to the Resort Rita - The Camp Kommandant and I almost certain I will be eternally punished and burn in hell for this fib. 

    I'm still not sure why I didn't just tell her the truth?  Resort Rita is a wee bit intimidating and perhaps she'd smack me sharply on the knuckles with her wooden ruler or put me into the Camp Naughty Corner for telling fibs. 


    I can actually imagine Resort Rita in her short tight black pencil skirt, patent leather 6 inch stilletoes and tight crisp white blouse.  Her hair in a tight bun, tiny reading glasses perched on the tip on her nose, pointing her finger in ny general directlion. 

    She'd, no doubt, force me to wear one of their "soopa trendy" kakhi "This Resort Rocks" T-shirts for the entire weekend and make me ingest a potion that ensures my pee turns purple if I relieve myself in the communial swimming pool. 


    (Wait a minute.... perhaps I watch too many dominatrix porn movies and thats one of my secret fantasy....erm EPIC FAIL!!!).  Just joking...I think.


    In conclusion, our camping trip is on like Donkey Kong and I'm still very afraid of Resort Rita...any takers on checking in when we get there?Source URL: http://gerberadaisyduke.blogspot.com/search/label/camping
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