Members of the Cape Piscatorial Society

So I was planning on posting some new pictures, but Matt took the camera. He went off fishing this weekend and left me alone...cameraless, so I'll have to post some new pictures once he gets back. And hopefully, he will have a picture with a big fish in it. Matt is trying to make us some new friends this weekend. He met this guys at work and they are fishing up at some lake this weekend. The rivers here don't open for fishing until September. Matt's boss has sponsored him with the Cape Piscatorial Society, so now we can get in free to all the rivers...you have to rent a key that will get you into rivers here. Matt has also gotten all sorts of other job offers through the fly shop. He is apparently going to be the score keeper at the South African National Fly Fishing Championship. I asked him what you do to keep score in fishing, and he said he didn't know, but that they needed a non-national to do it, so he offered. He also is giving a couple of casting lessons soon.

In other news, we have got some basic internet at our house. We have a decent signal about 50% of the time and a super slow signal the rest of the time. BUt its better than nothing. Internet, we have found is very expensive. Everything here is on a prepaid system...internet, phone, electricity. Actually the electricity is the probably the most surprisingly expensive thing here. We are paying more for electricity here than we did at home and I have never been so frugal with my electricity. During the day, we never use lights and at night we will only have one light on at a time. When we are moving from room to room, I'll go flip on the next room's light while Matt stays back and flips off the old room's light. I read that our water heater is probably what's taking up most of the electricity, so we have started turning it off when we aren't using it. Right now its like a game to see how long it actually needs to be on before a hot shower.

Nothing new on my end. Matt is the exciting one. I have been practicing being a good housewife...although I have no children and really no house to take care of, so it doesn't seem that bad. I have been getting a little work done, but it moves really slowly here. Everything moves slowly here. Everything.

That's it for now. I will post some pictures as soon as Matt brings the camera back.