Jeanette Verster Photography

Well, I got it homeYes, you can call me madI just hope that’ll it’ll survive the frost in Jo’burg.
I got the strangest looks and comments, but on the whole it went quite well. The guy at the check-in counter wasn’t quite sure, so the supervisor got called… first hurdle accomplished! Then the security men tried to put it side-ways on the conveyeor belt, lol, but then finally agreed to let it go through where the humans walk. They were worried something was hidden in the pot.

The Cape Town terminal was a nightmare! So many planes were delayed so we ended up sitting on the floor around my tree. We must’ve looked so funny sitting there. These photos were taken while we were waiting for the plane.

On the bus we had to catch to the plane, a couple from the US actually asked me about it, and one other guy just said “I’m not going to comment… my wife takes books to rugby matches”. Hee hee!

Then when I got on the plane, I was given an aisle seat. When the guy sitting next to me got to the seat he said “Now, that’s a nice welcome, a flower on my seat!”. So between me clutching my tree between my legs and the lady at the window, who kept getting up to see her son at the back of the plane, he had an interesting flight. He was fascinating too… he’s an electrical engineer working on a ore track into Saldahna. And as for the lady, wow what a story. Her son was being flown back to Jo’burg to go to a rehabilitation hospital (on a bed with a paramedic for company). He had an accident while cycling the Argus Cycle race, and he was on a ventilator for 2 weeks and has only just managed to start walking again. But for someone who’d had such a bad head injury, I think his recovery has been quite amazing so far. I hope he recovers fully.

So, all in all, it was a pretty eventful and interesting flight home. I hope the tree will be happy in my garden.