Christmas day …
25 December 2017
it was suggested we lunch at a restaurant, since everyone is
tired and didn’t feel like slaving over food. Hein and I adamantly said
‘no’. There’s no way we wanted to pay R300 PLUS PER PERSON for average to
even bad food, sitting in a stuffy place, bad service, etc.
Our suggestion was picnic at Hennops Pride, http://www.hennopspride.co.za/,
between Johannesburg and Hartbeespoort, on the Hennops river. Although it
means some work involved … packing up gazebo’s, chairs, salads, etc – we knew
it will be awesome.
Weather was perfect and at 7 am Hein and I parked at the
entrance to Hennops Pride. Already we were 4th in the queue to
enter! Entrance fee is R100/adult. There’s quite a few lovely
swimming pools, bathrooms and numerous picnic spots to choose from. Our
choice was right on the river, on soft grass between 2 braai places. In
no time our gazebo was up, Hein boiled water for coffee and we relaxed watching
the quick-moving river, sipping our black bitter coffee. Pure heaven!
About an hour later Hein’s eldest brother Deon and his
partner Val joined us. They had another gazebo and Hein started the wood
fire … breakfast was needed. Boerewors of course.
By now quite a few people have arrived … but it never was
‘crowded’. When Hein’s youngest brother Hugo and their dad arrived, Val
made us all toasted sandwiches. It was so good.
Val and I went for a swim a few times, they walked around the
area a bit (there’s a hang bridge, a small kiosk with ice creams, sodas and
beer) and then we braaied again.
Everyone brought their own meats - fillet, pork belly, pork
chops, pork riblets and chicken pieces. Val made potato salad, I made a C4
salad … corn, cheese (feta), cucumber and cherry tomatoes. Beers, water
and soda were chilled and all around the chatter of people, the laughter of
kids and the smells of braaivleis lulled us into a most amazing relaxed
state. THIS is what Christmas day is about … after 5pm we started to pack
up and head home.
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