Ian and Judiet

Wow, two posts in one evening

A while ago I went on business to Zambia. I flew with SAA to Zambia and it went without any hassle. In fact we got there in record time - the flight is supposed to be 2 hrs long, but it took us only an hour and 20 minutes to get there. Once I was there though it went pear shaped for a while. I get there and customs say that I must pay import duties for the Opteq device that I am carrying. I say thats fine, they must tell me how much it is because they dont accept credit cards so I have to go to the exchange office outside. Fine they say and they write down 165,000 kwatcha. My heart hit the floor until I realised that the exchange rate was quite good for us and that turned out to be only around ZAR 350 (about USD $50). Once that was all sorted I had missed the bus to the hotel so I had to catch a taxi to the hotel from the airport which cost another 150,000 for about a 10-15 minute drive. I checked in with little hassle and went up to my room until the next day when I went to Oxfam.

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So yesterday (Sunday) we had the most expensive lunch we will ever have in our lives. In total it came to just under R60,000 (About USD 8400.00). The lunch itself was only R400, but the car accident on the way home was just under 60K :(. It was raining and some guy was taking a corner and lost control and started doing doughnuts and his rear end hit our front end, which resulted in the damage as seen below. Everyone is fine, including his car it just has a couple of lights missing from it, while our car is un-drivable. What a cool way to start a week

Sucks.