Today was our only day off this week and we ad decided that's group of us would go snorkeling and see another beach on the island called paje. Me, Marnee, David, Mary, Liv, Marco, Andrea, Selina, and Steven woke up and waited for Soodi to come pick us up. Everything in Zanzibar runs a little slow so a 10am pick up time was actually 11:00. We all scurried down to the beach and saw a boat out about 200 feet in the ocean that we had to walk to. Being that our beach is filled with sea urchins, it was a daunting task.
Once the screaming and wading was done, we finally reached a little speed boat that will take us to snorkle. We sped off on the only day that was cloudy and cold here so far and picked out masks and flippers for the snorkle experience. We landed somewhere really close to our hotel but farrrr out into the ocean where Soodi said the starfish were. We all hopped out of the boat an looked into the water and saw hundred of multicolored starfish everywhere. We held them as they stuck to our hands and we took pictures and then let them go and hopped back into the boat to go to some corals to see some fish.
Once we got to our second destination we all swam all over and checked out the fish. There were a lot of angel fish and some pretty little blue fish running around. We saw baby octopus and many other cute little fish before it got too cold to stay in the water.
We got in the boat and headed back just in time for lunch. We finished lunch and went to walk to find a dalla dalla to take us to paje. It took about an hour but finally we piled into an already full dalla dalla and continued down the road picking up people as we went. I talked about being surprised that we fit 20 people in a dalla dalla before but this trip was different. We had at least 30 people inside and even people hanging from the back and on the roof.
We finally made it to paje and got out to get some food and more importantly something to drink. We found the only hotel that was open and ordered some drinks. I stuck with the bacardi and coke with no ice as we lounged around for a while.
We had a little tiff with the group ice everyoe was hungry and was trying to figure out what to eat, so we separated and the girls, me Marnee, Liv, Mary, and Selina ate a really good meal at the hotel restaurant. We had chicken stir fry, some glasses of wine, and a banana chocolate crepe and each of us paid a little less than an 10 American dollars.
Mr. Mohammed picked us up and we got home and were ready for bed.
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