Should I tell my mum?

We arrived back in JoBurg yesterday from Mozambique for 2 days before the beginning of our India adventures... (yes, Steve, I won't be at training this week because I'll be in India. Ha!) It was very, very, very good to have actual running water in the shower after having to use a bucket for everything for the past few weeks. And yes, it was an irresponsibly long shower. (Ok, I had more than 1 long, long shower).

Aaron has had quite a bad chest cough for the last few days, and today he has started with a high temperature. Not great when you consider that tomorrow we have to leave for the airport at 9am and spend 9.5 hours on a flight to India.

When we got back from the Apartheid Museum at 5.30pm, we decided that it would be good if I wandered out to find a pharmacy to see if we could get something... hopefully you dont need a prescription here to get antibiotics...! Aaron and I waked over to the nearby mall, only to get there about 2 miinutes after it shut. We knocked on the door but the guy in there, who saw us, didn't want to open again.

I wondered if there was another pharmacy within cooee and just near us there was a couple with two small kids getting into a car. I approached them and said, 'excuse me... ' Initially they thought that I was a beggar asking for money. Yes, there are whites over here who do that too.

Anyhow, they heard my accent (thank God I'm an aussie) and listened to what I was asking. They were giving me directions to 'the clinic up the road a way' and I asked if it was walking distance as I was a tourist and didn't have a car. They then, astoundingly, offered to drive us up there, wait while we were with the doctor and then drive us back to the hotel! Hmm... what was that about participation? They were amazing.

They had said that they didn't have any plans this evening, except for washing the dishes, and I mentioned that even being a good samaritan didn't exempt them from dishes duty.

I told them I didn't know how to thank them enough, and that I loved their hearts for being so generous with someone they didn't know. And they drove off into the night.

It was quite an oblique moment in this crazy whirlwind world wide adventure. Willingly getting into a strange car in a Johannesburg carpark... don't tell my mum!