Thursday, January 8, 2015

Out and About


We had two missions today: get a SIM card for our phone and do a bit of shopping. 
Sudi made us a great breakfast with chickpeas, a wheat cake with coconut and some toast with jam. I need to start taking pictures of the food, it's beautiful! Lee has been eating some rice and trying different things. He had some dal and some carrot coconut salad. Things have a lot of spices but aren't necessarily spicy. The only thing he's spit out was pieces of chapati, maybe it was too chewy? 
He showed us on the map the best place for a sim and to take the ferry boat across the water to a certain store with good prices. We all lathered up with sunscreen and set out. The wall to the cell store was great, there is just so much stuff happening. Goats doing ridiculous things on one side of the street, lorries and motorcycles dodging cows on the road, bustling shops, people out everywhere. We made it to the cell store but forgot our passport. In order to get a sim here you need a passport and a photo. So we decided to go back and get it but ended up wandering the streets out to the old Chinese fishing nets and fish market until the sun was too intense. We found its best to play inside and relax from about noon to 3 to avoid the intense sun. Tom went back to the store alone but forgot his phone that time. We'll try again tomorrow and attempt not to forget anything. 
After some A/C time and a nap we set out for the ferry dock. We took a few side roads and ended up wandering through the Muslim neighborhood and by the mosque. We over wandered and ended up having to head back since it was getting dark. Oh well, we'll try again tomorrow. 
Dinner was amazing once again and we fell asleep fast. 
The view from our stairs.
Lee hanging out with Sudi.

They cut the canopy of streamers down in the night. 



























I'm doing the best I can with these photos...I can't edit them at all or see them all that clearly on my phone so hopefully this turns out ok! 

1 comment:

{ M E G } said...

The photos are great! I want samosas now! I feel like both your visits to India & Africa prove we need better bananas over here.