Mpumalanga

[parrotheadlois]

OK, Greg and I were listening to a Podcast from August on the way home today when Pete mentioned Mpumalanga. Greg and I have actually been there!! and there's a Disney connection to why. We attended one of the special food and wine dinners held at Jiko during the Food & Wine Festival (we think it was in 2005) - and the CEO of South Africa Airlines was there -AND -they gave away 3 trips to South Africa - we won! We went!!!! We took a side trip to a game reserve and to get there we flew into Mpumalanga Airport (a very nice little airport).
http://www.mpumalanga.com/index.php?home If we remember correctly, it's pronounced like mmm-pum-a-langa. We loved it. Sort of like Pete's trip to Australia, we'd go back in a nano-second. It was just so wierd having that word pop up in a Podcast!!

 

[SamSam]

Okay...that's very cool!

 

[BriarRosie]

Well, now I know 2/3 of the people who won that trip. A couple I'm friends with won another one of those trips at the same dinner.

 

[Stacy's a freak]

Very cool Lois!!

 

[parrotheadlois]

Well, now I know 2/3 of the people who won that trip. A couple I'm friends with won another one of those trips at the same dinner.

Holy cow - that's amazing. I know one of the couples was from California, we're from New Jersey - they must be "the other couple."

Very cool Lois!!

It was Stacy, it really was.

 

[BriarRosie]

Holy cow - that's amazing. I know one of the couples was from California, we're from New Jersey - they must be "the other couple."

Nope, the couple I know is from Florida.

 

[parrotheadlois]

Nope, the couple I know is from Florida.

That's what I meant - the couple you know is the "other couple" to me. We were sitting with the couple from California so two couples at our table won (amazing!!!)