We had breakfast and went out to meet Charles so he could drive us back to Dar. Charles was out there... The lads tossed our bags (Light according to Charles) into the LandCruiser and then Charles states he needs breakfast (we were early). So we sent him off to eat and we went over to the office and chatted with Conraed, the Dutc SouthAfrican camp host. So Charles finished his mornnig meal and we jumped into the LandCruiser for our trek back to Dar. Of course Charles was on Lion Alert all the way. He got us to Movenpick hotel... checked us in... and bid us goodbye til the AM.
Mum and I checked in, checked email on the hotel wireless on my lappie.. .and then decided to go down for a swim in the infinity pool. We swam until I got too hot.. so we headed up to the room, Mum stopped at the coffee kiosk and I went up.... in the hallway i found Shane and Sue from Saadani... we were all like "huh?" Weird.. they were in the room NEXT to ours!!
Mum came on up.. and met up with them too. She chatted and agreed to dinner together.
So we all freshened up and grabbed a cab to Sea Cliff resort for dinner. We had dinner at a nice afresco restaurant. i had thai curry. Sue had a Cosmo and I had a margaria. mmmmmmm.
We all drooled at the gift shop window after dinner and agreed to come back in the AM for shopping.
14th July.
met up with Shane and Sue again after breaky. I had made a dash out to the Mini Mart up the road for tanzanaian Tea. It was easy to get there.. but oh my gosh... to get back across the road to the MovenPick was hell! I had to dash between cars to get across road. This is NOT California.. they do NOT stop for Peds. But I got home with the tea.
As I got back to the room... Shane and Sue were knocking on our door. We took a cab back to Sea Cliff..... but on the way, cab had a flat... so we got to watch the men change the tyre. I love cabs in Africa, cos you pay em 10K shilling and they will wait for you for hours!!!!
We got back to Movenpick.. had lunch at the hotel and then I packed to get my butt to Dar Airport. I as told I would be picked up at 2 pm. At 1:30 they called saying the ride was there... and he had been there for half an hour trying to get to hotel to find what room I was in and who I was!!! The ride to the airport sucked... traffic worse than LA. My driver finally got me there... helped me with my luggage and I tipped him well. I checked in to my Air India flight to Bombay.... ugh....
Well guess what.. flight is late...
to make a long story short... flight kept getting delayed... and 3 hours later.. we were told that flight would never happen. Now they had 40 plus pissed off Indians hollaring. I was the lucking sod.... I had a connection in London. So they put me on KLM flight to Amsterdam to London so I could catch my AA flght to LAX.
I was STOKED!! I didn't have to fly to Bombay. But what sucked is that I couldn't get a call to Mum at Movenpick because my phone was on Zantel... and Zantel lets calls through when it feels arsed to. Did get a text out to Kit. That was good.
After I had my KLM boarding pass in paws... I went through customs.. AGAIN. (never did have to pay that 8 dollar exit fee.....) I bought a few more items in the airport shops.... to use up those shillings.... then headed to the cafeteria and grabbed a Beer!! I needed it! I was sooooo stressing about getting home. I was actually happy to not have to fly via Air India into Bombay. To get re-routed via KLM airlines was a Dogsend. Woo hoo.
I got on the plane at 2330.. settled in and went to sleep and woke up in Amsterdam where I spent a few hours waiting for flight to london...... nothing like leaving Amsterdam at 11 and arriving in London at 11. Had a few hours in London.... had to go through custons to get my butt to American Airlines. I got on the undergound.. got to terminal 3 and checked in... and entered the departure terminal where I bought out the place in Cadbury chocolate!! MMMMMMM
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