Tuesday 17 March

Today we did our Rotary Presentations. Firstly, to the Danville clubs, around 100 people. Secondly, to the Martinsville clubs: where someone forgot to organise a projector so we had to do our presentation without powerpoint slides-I think it went off quite well under the circumstances.

We also visited the house where Lady Astor grew up (the first female parliamentarian in the UK.) that was followed up by a visit to the Danville Museum in the Sutherlin Mansion and a walk down Millionaire's row to look at the architecture of houses built in the late 1800's. In the afternoon after our presentation to the Danville clubs, we explored the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville and for a relatively small town of about 40 000 people it was fascinating to see the extent and technological resources of the museum. You wouldn't find anything like it in SA outside of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. The interactivity was enough to keep, even Trevor, out of mischief!

After our stressful evening of pictureless presentations some "horseing around" and ice-cream was much needed and received to put us in a good mood before going home to our hosts after another full day.