Our first time on the roads.

Today we ventured out on our own. We went to the grocery store (Pick 'N Pay) and to a store kind of like Wal-Mart (Game) and to a store like Wal-Green's (Clicks). Lincoln did very good driving on the left side of the road, sitting on the right side of the car. It felt kind of strange to be the passenger sitting on the left side. We were able to drive to the mall where these stores are located, purchase most everything we needed (we cannot find sponges, or night lights that you plug in to the wall here) and drive home with no incidents. Lincoln did have a little trouble parking, he almost ran in to the car parked to the left of us. He says that we weren't that close to it, but I was sitting right there, and my heart stopped a little. There are attendants in the parking lot that will get you a cart, and take your cart when finished and I think maybe they are there for security also. It is customary to tip them a couple of rand (that is the money here, about 6 rand equals one dollar). We didn't have anything less that 5 rand, so our attendant got a good tip today.
THE GROCERY STORE- We were able to find just about anything we wanted, although there is almost no Mexican food here. The Mexican section consists of 1 box of tortilla chips for about 5 dollars, 1 box of taco shells and taco seasoning. We couldn't even find salsa. I noticed that there is a lot of curry here. There are about 5 varieties of spaghetti sauce in a jar, and several more varieties in pouches. They sell a LOT of different types of meat, I believe we can actually get ostrich meat there. The thing that struck me most as being different (aside from the lack of variety of the items) was that everything came packaged in small sizes. There are many more types of chips here (although only 1 brand of tortilla chips), but they come in packages that are about a big as maybe 2 of the bags of chips you would buy in the US to take in lunches. There are no super-sized or even large packages of anything. Well, our power just went out, (I wish there was an electrician around here!) so I better get this on the internet before the battery on my computer runs out.