We had the morning free so we slept in. We were supposed to have lunch at the hotel, but we decided we wanted to go to a Swahili restaurant which was listed in the Lonely Planet’s “Best Restaurants in every Country” guide. Ali took us there and it turns out that his nephew works there. His nephew explained what everything was and we picked what we wanted to eat. We had way more food than we could possibly eat but it was fun for Rick to try lots of different dishes. It cost us $23, bargain.
After lunch we headed to the airport. We said a sad goodbye to Ali and Suleiman and boarded the plane for Nairobi. In Nairobi we were picked up by Lydiah and William. They took us to a restaurant for dinner and then dropped us off at the international airport. Our flight left at 11:55pm. We were surprised to see Douglas and Nathalia, friends from Amboseli, on the plane. They were supposed to have left for Bali when we flew to Zanzibar, but I guest they postponed because they got food poisoning somewhere along the way.
We flew all night and arrived in Dubai at about 6am and then caught our flight to Boston. Luckily the plane was almost empty so we were able to stretch out and sleep. Thank you to Randy and Karen for picking us up at the airport. It was overcast and cold when we got home. It was about 85 degrees in Zanzibar and 55 degrees in Boston when we left. Ugh!
We got home to our new kitchen.
Hi Rick! I told you I would check out the blog! Very interesting and great pictures!