Day 23

Friday the 13, I'm not superstitious but it might have been best to stay indoors today. Our first late start of the week and we were hoping for a lay in, unfortunately the cleaner wanted had other ideas. Apparently last year the 2 guys always left the room in a mess so the cleaners want to come in every few days now so it doesn't get too messy, thanks guys. To be honest neither of us are that messy and don't see the point but we can't complain, the rooms are looking nice and clean. As we were up early we decided to go for a run, we walked past reception to be told the manager was looking for us, great no lay in and now wondering what we've done wrong. We walked out the door to find it chucking it down with rain, to be honest it helped with the run but I think I'd prefer to struggle in the sun. We got back and the manager was waiting for us, apparently Harry had left a few bits of popcorn about last night. We then showered and got ready and went to sit downstairs to be told that our food order had been changed from fish and chips to roast chicken, not a big deal but we were looking forward to the fish and going on previous experience the roast chicken wasn't much to look forward to. 

A bad start to the day was about to get worse, we left early to get some lunch on the way to Ruyterwacht. We decided to go to steers, big mistake, the girl serving us was new, we wanted to be quick as we had to get into Ruyterwacht, unfortunately she didn't know the menu and she didn't know how to use the till. She took forever to work out what we wanted and how to put it in, she then put it down as just a burger when we'd asked for meals and got confused even more when Harry asked for large chips. She finally managed to get an order sorted but didn't realise you get a drink with the meal so we had to wait for her to get the manager to check, I'm normally quite patient when I know it's someone's first day but there was no way she should have been left on her own to serve the public. Anyway we got our drinks and left, Harry specifically asked for no cheese as he it doesn't agree with him, we heard her say to the cook no cheese but as she didn't know how to put it through the till it came with cheese. Back we went, this time the burger came quite quickly and looking at it the burger looked the same but had just had the cheese scraped off,mback for a third time, all sorted and we were finally on our way.

We arrived at Ruyterwacht about half hour late after all of the trouble with steers and because every road we took had traffic. Anyway Joe met us and we went and picked up Lourens, we were off to another complex in the Southern Suburbs, it's not a retirement village but apparently 95% of housing is taken by people that have retired. We were introduced to some of the people that stay there, I'm sorry Berghof but they are a lot more lively than you guys. We chatted for a while and they told us about their very own Olympics, and how they win all the golds. We then posed for a few pictures, the ladies were very friendly but 1 took a liking to Harry and as everyone else said cheese she had a little squeeze of Harry's bum cheek and invited him to the valentines ball tomorrow, her husband watched on.

We left with invites to come back soon, we dropped off Lourens and went to pick up some of the Ruyterwacht girls. We were doing a girls session for both Drommedaris and Ruyterwacht girls, 11 girls in total turned up and they seemed to enjoy the session we put on for them. After training we had planned a game, this morning we did a draw, similar and of same importance as a champions league draw, I ended up with Drommedaris and Harry with Ruyterwacht. We had 7 girls to Harry's 4, in training it was clear I had the older, bigger, stronger and higher ability girls so we gave Harry 1 of our girls, arguably the best player on the pitch. Still confident about my team I decided to give Harry a 1 goal lead as he had 1 less girl. Ruyterwacht managed to score a dubious goal early on, we were doing kick ins instead of throw ins and the ball seemed to go straight in, so no goal, but in all honesty it took a deflection off 1 of our girls and proved to be an important touch. Harry's girls were by far the better team and controlled the game after their goal. So Ruyterwacht won and that means it's now Martin 2-1Harry. 

A good session and it was now back to Drommedaris for a games evening with both sets of girls and all the other kids from Drommedaris. Loads of kids turned up and they all wanted to be picked up and swung around and put on our shoulders which was really nice. Joe told us most of these kids haven't got a dad living with them so they love some attention, we were swamped and a lot just wanted a hug or an arm around them. Harry is now turning into a ladies man, after the old lady earlier, he then received a valentines card from 8 year old Inam that said I love you Hagry on it. Cute kid, her and her sister said they were our valentines and that Harry was her boyfriend. These kids really cheered us up and made up for such a bad start to the day. The girls want us to come back and coach them again, and everyone said they'd come see us Wednesday when we come back. The Ruyterwacht girls got on really well with the other group and everyone posed for loads of photos. Looking forward to next Wednesday.

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