When Scott was here

This past weekend has been crazy busy a la Amazing Race style - but so good for me! I had the pleasure of housing and feeding (ha ha!) a world traveler for 40 hours or so before sending him off to New Zeeland via Oz. He's Canadian and a friend of a friend, Adam, and his name is Scott Mackinnon, and his story is amazing.
I can't tell it as well as he can, so do yourself a favour and go check it out yourself on his blog, where he's documenting his year long trip around the world, passionately ticking off the items on his bucket list. On Facebook, search MYXTRAORDINARY or check out his blog. It might change your life, it might not, but it will definately inspire you, like it has inspired me.
In a nutshell - and I'm defuzzing it from all the inbetween rushing to print out flight confirmations, book rental cars, entertaining Billy etc - we managed to meet for the first time on Friday afternoon at Catz Pajamas, have MTN farewell drinks at FTV Cafe, ate the bestest pizza ever at Jolly Roger, run a 10km race in the Deloitte Pretoria Marathon on Saturday morning, picked up some niiiiiiice boeries for lunch before we explored Magaliesburg with Will and visited the Mount Grace hotel, played pool with the local bad boy in the local hangout and sampled some brandy and coke, went to the location, had a Black Label in a bona fide shebeen, bought biltong at a local shop in the village, went to a pub in Randburg to watch a rugby game and listen to a local band play live, had dinner at one of my favourite pubs - Thunderguns - and did a truly SA braai with lamb chops, mielies, braaibroodjies, bottled yellow peaches with homemade custard and ice cream on the Sunday before getting him to the airport. Breathe!
Topping it all off, I took my friend Robyn with me to the MK Music Awards at Teatro, Monte Casino - wowaweewah! I managed to get a teensy weensy little bit of sleep before Monday started again, only to start planning my next weekend, which will be just as exciting and busy.
I'm loving this year, I'm loving myself, I'm loving my friends, new and old, and I'm loving my family. This year is a year of challenges, pushing limits, revelations, adventures, end-of-the-month-Salty Cracks, and love, love, love.