Marrakesh day 2

So I forgot to mention the driving here is insane. There are road but no one follows them people drive down the middle of the street sometimes 3 wide on a two car road plus a few mopeds and bikes. I could never drive here. So this afternoon Yessef, Alicia and I explored Bahia Palace. It was really amazing all of the designs on the walls were hand done and the carvings were outstanding. I took some amazing pictures. Outside the palace there was this tiny tiny baby kitty like smaller than ella when we found her and Alicia fell in love, Then we went back to the souk and did a bit more shopping Alicia bought her harem pants for our trek and I bought a small present for all of my lovelies.

We then rushed to meet Anis for the Germany v. Argentina game. We had to sit a few seats back because it was so packed. Anis is a major fan and I felt bad when they lost. Then we went out for a sandwhich and then walked back to their place where we rested on the couches and just taked for a bit. They are hilarious.
They live in a typical guy flat and their kitchen reminded me of Matts place. They have broken most of their light fixtures from playing soccer indoors.. They have stray dogs in their neighboor and we spent a good amount of time feeding them leftovers from dinner the night before and making jokes about them. Then we went to the grocery store and bought ingredients to make dinner.

We sat outside and ate watermelon and then I started dinner. I made my chicken curry for them and they loved it they had seconds and thirds. I was so happy. They gave me this little apron to wear and I had to stand on a stool to see into the pot.

After dinner we sat outside and talked and listened to music. I got pretty sleepy around 1ish and ended up falling asleep on the dryer I had been sitting on and went to sleep and Alicia stayed up for awhile with them.

They were really great guys and I am so happy we chose to do couch surfing. They took care of us, were the funniest people ever, and we left with some great memories. They woke up early with us this morning to help us get a taxi. Definitely going to stay in touch.

This morning we left for our trek to the Sahara. We were at the wrong post office and had to make another call, which we need to stop doing, to figure out where to go. We have been so lucky on this trip we have almost missed so many of our means of transportation.

We are in a bus driving on the craziest road through some of the most beautiful scenery I have seen. It is amazing people live in some of these villages. We stopped for a bit and we bought a fresh squeeze orange juice and watched the guy cut and squeeze the oranges. Doesn't get much fresher. A crazy man in one of the small shops wrapped us in Berber turbans ill post a photo in a bit on my facebook.

Happy 4th of July! Say hi to the lake for me
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