Visit from the Gosling's

We were really blessed this week to have my childhood best friend Stayci, her husband Joe and his sister Rebecca from England visit us. Stayci and Joe live in Gauteng (10 hours away from us) so we rarely get to see them, let alone spend any quality time with them. One of my greatest wishes as a child was that when someday  us 3 girls in the T.T.T (The Terrific Three -- only the best club ever, don't mock...holla to Kebs and Steak!) marry the men of our dreams and for those said men to become good friends. That dream has come true! Joe and Jarom must have been separated at birth. They are both laid back, love English footie, playing FIFA till the cows come home, eating meat and reminiscing about their missions. Incidentally, they served their missions at the same time, only J served in Utah and Joe served in Idaho. Also whilst one is directly from England and speaks with a thick English accent, J is half British as his dad comes from England. So...yes, I think this is neat.

 Since the Gosling's had never been to East London before (if you exclude briefly landing a helicopter in E.L en route to Port Alfred) we really wanted them to have the full E.L experience which included plenty of tanning and swimming at the beach (Our little Molly dolly got to experience the beach for the first time!), shopping at Hemingways, dinner with the parents and missionaries, having a couple braais, watching too many episodes to count of 'The Office', eating plenty of ribs and buffalo wings at the Spur for R90, playing games, laughing over Trevor Noah, scouring the summer carnival flea market, listening to Xhosa rap music, making homemade nougat ice-cream, and relaxing. OK sure there is more to this little town than that but mother nature wasn't cooperating.

The brilliant thing about hanging out with them is that we don't have to do much in order to have a great time. They are fun, optimistic, happy people and you can't help but feel inspired by them.