zanziBAR... some night life they have! haha

 What could be better than seeing the sunrise while on a plane? Not many things! The plane ride to Zanzibar was a grand total of 15 minutes if you including the getting on and off the plane. It was like a roller coaster ride with a killer view! Yay for turb!

 We love ZANZIBAR!! The airport is about a quarter the size of Abbotsford Airport! lol love it! Off we go to find the inn we are staying at! yes!

 Uhh... it is somewhere around here... Alley after alley we were trekked around looking for our inn. We found our inn but some guys in the inn decided we should stay at a different one. So they trekked us over to "Adam's Inn" and tried to convince us this was better than "Princess Salme Inn" to which we said "Hawezi Kana" [not a chance in hell] and we went back to Princess!

 There was a lot of mixing up of rooms and reservations and fun stuff like that! After only a couple hours... we were all sorted out, paid up and walking into our rooms of magic... It's always good to feel like a princess in Stone Town...

How perfect is this! Our beds are so close to each other that if either of us roll off our beds... we will not fall to the ground! Perks! You cannot tell by the picture.. but there is a good sized ledge that we have to jump off of to get into the room... oh yes, it is luxury to the max! haha The beds were super comfy and I loved my shower head! It was actually over my head and warmish water came out! Heaven!!!

When we got there we walked around and looked in all the shops. This area is mega wazungu[white people/europeans] area and way to over priced! You can tell it is touristy because things I can get for 1000 tsh they were charging 8000 tsh-15,000 tsh. I bargained with them for some things, but I decided Dar is where the purchases are at!
So, what is the worst thing to forget when going away for the weekend? Any guesses on what I forgot? UNDIES! Yeah, grand! As if I want to go shopping for undies in stone town... YIKES! I had to skip our stone town tour to go shop and thankfully Jodi came with me! The stone tour I hear was amazing! They visited the slave market, saw a castle and some really old and beautiful architecture! We met up with them for dinner at a awesome restaurant. We sat on pillows on the floor and I had a really good veggie curry! It was an expensive restaurant... [in comparison to our prices back in Dar] I think I spent almost 20,000 tsh which is like $13! Yikes! Pricey food!
Day one is done!
Day two consisted of the following!:
-SPICE TOUR!!
-first we took a boat ride to prison island were we fed tortoises which ranged from age young[umm 10?]-185 and visited the ruins there.

-snorkeling in the Indian Ocean where we saw zebra fish, nemos, clown fish, these neon blue fish and 50 other kinds I could not tell you the names of them!
-returning on a boat ride back to Zanzibar Island and went for lunch at a local persons house. We sat on mats outside and ate the usually Tanzanian/Zanzibar food... the bananas and then the rice and then a few other cool things. Food tastes so good here! mmm YUM!

-Went around the forest and saw all the spices they grow there!
Anywhere from nutmeg, lemon grass, iodine, cinnamon, vanilla, cocoa, jasmine, tumic, etc. I cannot remember all the spices, there were so many! 

This is a guy that came around with us and our tour guide and showed us the spices, etc. That is nutmeg right there. Fun fact!!: Guys here will feed their wives nutmeg because it gets girls excited... LOL I found it amusing that the guide told us AFTER he gave all of us some nutmeg to taste... hahaha.
This guy was also #2 for proposals for me. Good times!

After the whole tour that took all day, we went for dinner to celebrate Kara's 19th birthday! We danced a bit to a live band, but quickly learned there is no such thing as night life out here in clubs or bars or anything. We just wanted to go out and dance for a bit, but even when we moved to Livingstone's where they had a dance floor AND a live DJ... we were still the ONLY people dancing... weird. Oh well! We arrived home just after 11:30pm and a few of us still stayed up on the rooftop for a bit. Good times!
End of day two!
Sunday May 22nd!
We woke up, checked out, and went to a local market for shopping They have a few thousand fabrics to choose from and the prices for a meter are CRAZY cheap! So that was fun, and then we walked through slave market until we ended up at a cafe for lunch.

Then we went back home... To Dar

The end!