Rugga, plane disasters and cycle challenges

Well, its been a weekend with a bit of a difference. Friday night was spent at the Sound Stage in Midrand, with K's work colleagues. We went and watched a show called Girl Talk 007. The show was good I thought - we've seen it before, so it was probably a little better for those that were seeing it for the first time.
Then we got news on Saturday morning that a plane had gone down in Cameroon - and K mentioned to me that one of the guys in her team was flying back from Cameroon on Saturday morning. Anyway, by lunchtime on Saturday it was confirmed that 2 people from her company (including the guy in her team) and one or two other clients were actually on the fated plane.
The worrying thing for us, besides the fact that her team has lost a very competent manager, is that she flies up to Ghana and Nigeria in a couple of weeks time. There have also been reports of British contract workers who have been kidnapped and held for ransom in one of the towns just outside their IBOM project. Its standard procedure to send employees up with armed guards, but still, its a worry for us at the moment.
Saturday evening was spent with a couple of mates, watching Super14 history being made, as both the Sharks and Bulls secured home semi-finals - the Bulls were set an almost impossible task at the beginning of the match - beat the Reds by more than 72 points and they would have a home semi-final. Well, not only did they achieve the 72 points, they went on to score 13 tries for a total of 92 points, compared with the 3 points that the Reds managed.
Today was a pretty relaxed day. Went for a cycle around the area - managed to rack up another 20km - not huge. Have also set my eyes on a goal for next year - riding the Sani2C mountain bike race next year. Its a 3 day, 250km odd race from the Sani Pass in the Drakensberg to Scottburgh Beach on the Kwazulu Natal south coast. Hasn't been finalised yet, but I will definitely be talking to a few people about it in the next few weeks, and getting a riding team together.