June has come and gone!!!

Hello everyone. The whole month of June has come and gone in a flash. As I said previously, we had Gerard’s mom arrive on the 1 June and she spent a month with us this time. After her trip out here last year, we felt that she can still cope with the flight from S.A. When she comes to Europe, she usually visits us and then goes on to her family in Austria or Switzerland. After a real problematic time with her flight back to S.A. last year, we decided that the Austrian family and anyone else, who wanted to see her, could come to us for a change.
So our first week was spent just relaxing at home. On the 8th of June the Austrian family arrived. Peter and Traute stayed until the Tuesday afternoon and left Tante Hilde here with us. They were attending a business conference in Munich. On Friday 15th I drove Hilde through to Fulda station. She caught the ICE train down to Munich where she met up with Peter and Traute again.
On the 23rd of July, Manfred and Lisabet arrived from Switzerland. They caught the ICE train from Thun through to Fulda and then caught the connecting train through to Alsfeld. They got to spend one night with us and then we took them through to Fulda the next day to go all the way back.
Besides school activities, a few braais with friends and getting together for teas etc. we did not actually take Mom around for much sightseeing at all. She seemed to enjoy her stay here very much, as she said it was a nice relaxing visit for her. She involved herself with the kids and their homework which was great and helped me around the house and garden..
She left on Saturday 30th July and we are all feeling quite lost without her.
I will be writing a few more detailed posts with some photos about her stay here.
Now there will be no excuse for my emailing you all again and getting back on track with correspondence.