Easter weekend continued.

After the excitement in Sabie, we spent a more relaxing Saturday in PTY, including our traditional Saturday trip to the Laundromat. We went to Magnolia Dell again, to try and make it to the monthly craft market. Apparently the market started at 900 and did not continue on to 1700, which is when we arrived on the scene. However, Magnolia Dell is still one of the best playgrounds around, so we played for a bit. Here’s a pic of the horsie thing mentioned previously. Where can we find one in the ‘States?

Also nice about Magnolia Dell, as previously mentioned, is the cafe adjacent to the playground. Great idea, eh?

Sunday was Easter Egg, as Veronica learned in school, so the highlight of the morning was Easter Egg Hunting! Chocolate and the hard boiled variety, the eggs lay in wait for the girls, who hunted around the flat with much screaming and delight.

Easter Monday was Familiedag (Family Day), so we spent the day together on a hike at Wonderboom Nature Reserve, just a little north of the city. The Wonderboom (Wondertree) itself is a remarkably large specimen of fig tree (not the edible kind, Ficus salicifolia for you nerds out there). It has dropped branches over the years that have sprouted into new daughter trees all around a central mother tree which has been dated at over 1000 years old. And it’s really flippin’ big! In this pic we’re hiking down from the fort at the top of the hill, and you can see from the cars in the background that this is one very large plant.

The tree is a sacred site of the Ndebele people (who make the colorful patterns like at the Botanical Gardens). We hiked up the trail to the top to see the remains of the fort,

which affords a nice view of downtown PTY, although it was a bit hazy this particular Family Day.

Here’s a pic of the girls sitting in one of the gunports.