Unexpected & Exciting

The two words that title this post sum up my day today. The happenings were both unexpected & exciting. You never know what the day holds for you. You never know what the future has in stall for you.

I awoke this morning expecting to go to work as usual, once work was finished head home and spend the afternoon visiting our local Spar, and then playing with the kids for a while. Well all was headed that way until about 10am. My cellphone rang. This was the call that was going to change my day, my week , my month, my outlook and everything else. It was my Mother-in law on the other end ...

A while back my Father-in law had investigated buying a franchise in a coffee company, but the timing and all was not right. So it was left alone and not spoken about till last night when he got a phone all from the franchise company to ask if he was still interested. As before I was keen to go through the investigation phase again, and wouldn't mind getting involved if given the opportunity.

The phone call was my Mother -in law asking if was interested in going to find out more and meet the director of the Franchise company. Once again I was keen to go along and listen and see what it was all about.

Another phone call soon followed to say that we needed to meet this gentleman between 2 and 3pm this afternoon. So I made the necessary plans and arrangements and headed off to see this gentleman with my Mother and Father -law.

An hour later I walked out of the offices of the company as a motivated partner in a franchisee deal. It was unexpected and sooooooo exciting! It certainly was not how I had planned my day when I got up this morning. Dad, thank you for this opportunity!!!!!!!!!!!!

So that is the story of my day. Be ready for the unexpected and be ready to change and adapt at every opportunity. I'm now going to have to learn a lot more about coffee... Beans or filter, latte or cuppachino or should we make it an espresso? Medium or dark roasted? Freshly ground?Black or white? Milk - hot or cold? Milk or froth? Or perhaps a hot chocolate....?

British Holiday Update.

If you have been following my bdlog you will know that I am going on my first overseas holiday in April '09. Well I thought I would give a little update! No, I have not packed yet and No, my passport hasn't arrived yet. However, today I received some foreign currency as a gift. This will certainly go down well as the exchange rate is rediculous at the moment.

I'm off to check, I think it's about 130 days till we go!

Dad's 60th Birthday

As part of my father's 60th Birthday celebrations, as mentioned before, we (the family) travelled to Umhlanga Rocks on Kwazulu-Natals North coast to be together for the celebration .

We woke up this morning with the sun shining brightly and an awesome day planned ahead. We had a photo shoot booked for 8am, breakfast to follow and later on, lunch. After lunch we (Hayley, Francois and myself) had to head off to the airport to catch flights home for work tomorrow. (The last two days of my current job).

We all got ready and headed down for the shoot. It turned out to be a whole lot of fun, and I cannot wait to these the photo's that were taken. they should be really cool. We then headed off to breakfast at the local lifesaving club and spent some time on the beach as the weather was playing along nicely.

I got burnt to the bone and then we all headed off to lunch. The food was exquisite! The day had all gone exactly to plan, infact I don't think we could of planned it better if we tried.

Then it was time to go to the airport. All in good time, probably with about 15 min to spare. Then all fell apart. Hayley locked the keys in the car that is supposed to take us to the airport. Their luggage inside. Spare keys I hear you asking.... it's a hired car that has to be handed back at the airport when we get there. Panic sets in as there are no spare keys.

The AA is called for help. We are rushed to the airport to check in, in the meantime . Hayley and Francois have to hope that there luggage arrives before they have to board. We can all laugh about it now, but at the time it was not so funny.

To shorten the story a bit, all turned out ok in the end. Luggage arrive on time, the car was handed back and we managed to catch our respective flights. Always an exciting moment in our households.

The down side is now I'm 600km away from my wife and kids for two days of work. At least when that is over It's holiday time for us all, and we'll be heading off to Cape Town again for more adventures and funny stories to share from those experiences.

P.S Happy Birthday again Dad! Thanks for an awesome day!