Shopping

Friday 11.02.11

This morning we headed to Nyali Nakumatt, as we thought we had seen a laundromat there.  We carted all of our dirty washing along and were surprisingly excited at the prospect of sitting in a laundromat for an hour, as it meant we didn’t have to handwash for once.  Unfortunately, when we arrived it was only a dry cleaners and we had to head home and hand wash after all!

After some lunch and a bit of chilling out at the house, we went to White Sands for my last time, as I wanted to wander the beach and get some photos.  Taking a stroll along the beach is no easy feat!  Everybody approaches me wanting to touch my mzungu dreads, or direct me to their stall, or take me sailing!  I even had one man tell me “oooh your hair and your body and your eyes and your ears make me say ‘ooh la la’ and I could marry you quite happily and you will make my heart stop!” which I thought was overly corny and hilarious!  He was saddened when I declined his offer to dinner, but not disheartened and said he would try harder when he saw me tomorrow.  Unfortunately I did not have the heart to tell him I wouldn’t be back!

Once home we had dinner and prepared to go out tonight with Josh and Omosh.  By 9pm we still hadn’t heard from them which we thought was strange and were beginning to think that they had forgotten.  Then of course Omosh messaged saying he would come at 10:30pm, but unfortunately Josh was unable to join us.  The whole thing seemed a bit set up and also because it was getting so late, we all agreed to postpone until tomorrow night, when hopefully Josh was available also!  So instead we watched a DVD and called it a night.