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SUNDAY - 10 Sept - "Round Trip"
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More water and sand
Gets everywhere when you're at the beach. All the kids, ours and the rest got wet and sandy again, but had a good time doing it. My kids got a bit burnt... but not as badly as we thought based on looking at them.
Seaside shopping
This guy came up to the beach side of the property with an assistant and some bags of stuff. He started by holding up some dresses in the wind, and so we went to check them out. Sh. Harun bought several things for my family including an African outfit for moby, a dress for Munira, and some other clothing for the girls. I started eyeing the other things he had- leather boxes, specifically, and ended up, after a good while of haggling, getting a couple large boxes and several that were smaller. He gave me a little leather bracelet with a shell in it, and I decided it was my African watch - when you can see it it's daytime and when you can't, it's night. Actually I intend to wear it when I'm in the US to remind me of the family.
Eventually everyone got tidied up, we cleared out our rooms, and then visitors started to arrive for the Sunday thikr. That went on for a while, followed by prayers and food, and then we all left to board the busses- only this time we filled them up with the original group plus the visitors. Traffic was as bad this time, but it was night, and the driver had to make some detours, so it took our bus almost 2 hours to get home. I sat in the back this time, and mercifully was able to get up and out and stretch whenever the bus stopped - otherwise I'd have been miserable. Remember how I said nothing ever goes very fast here? Well, that makes it easy to leave the back door open, and easy to hop on and off when things are stop and go.
We arrived home, gratefully, and (since I'm writing this almost a week later) I can't remember what happened after that. We probably went to bed, with visions of the children's first day of classes the next day.
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More water and sand
Gets everywhere when you're at the beach. All the kids, ours and the rest got wet and sandy again, but had a good time doing it. My kids got a bit burnt... but not as badly as we thought based on looking at them.
Seaside shopping
This guy came up to the beach side of the property with an assistant and some bags of stuff. He started by holding up some dresses in the wind, and so we went to check them out. Sh. Harun bought several things for my family including an African outfit for moby, a dress for Munira, and some other clothing for the girls. I started eyeing the other things he had- leather boxes, specifically, and ended up, after a good while of haggling, getting a couple large boxes and several that were smaller. He gave me a little leather bracelet with a shell in it, and I decided it was my African watch - when you can see it it's daytime and when you can't, it's night. Actually I intend to wear it when I'm in the US to remind me of the family.
Eventually everyone got tidied up, we cleared out our rooms, and then visitors started to arrive for the Sunday thikr. That went on for a while, followed by prayers and food, and then we all left to board the busses- only this time we filled them up with the original group plus the visitors. Traffic was as bad this time, but it was night, and the driver had to make some detours, so it took our bus almost 2 hours to get home. I sat in the back this time, and mercifully was able to get up and out and stretch whenever the bus stopped - otherwise I'd have been miserable. Remember how I said nothing ever goes very fast here? Well, that makes it easy to leave the back door open, and easy to hop on and off when things are stop and go.
We arrived home, gratefully, and (since I'm writing this almost a week later) I can't remember what happened after that. We probably went to bed, with visions of the children's first day of classes the next day.
posted by divb at
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