Wesnesday was a crazy day. We hadn't had a day off in almost 2 weeks so David and I decided that we would be taking the day to go to Stonetown and get a couple things for my trip this weekend, but we really wanted to try to sleep I'm since we hadn't done that yet since we got here.
As I was trying to close my eyes and pray to sleep past 8, David walks in the room and wakes me up telling me the other girls who were going to stonetown were leaving by 8:45. So i got up, showered, and got ready for the day. We came to breakfast only to find out that the girls had gotten a taxi for four people and not 6, so David and I were screwed out of a ride. Shitty, we decide to make the best of it though and went to the hotel reception desk and asked for a taxi. The guy at the desk said," we don't have taxi to stonetown today. " and tried to explain that they had all their cars filled by "guests" when the only other people in the hotel are one couple who had already been picked up.
I told them I had no problem calling another taxi company, which got them moving. They told me to wait 10 mins and there would be a car that would take us to stonetown for 6,000 shillings.
45 minutes later this huge bus show up and tries to take me and David to stonetown. We ask him how much for the van and he says 60,000 shillings!!! That's about 58 US dollars! We told him he had to be crazy, tried to haggle, but got nowhere. We finally told him we were just going to walk and he offered to drive us to the Dalla dalla pick up. We shelled out a couple thousand shillings for him and he dropped us off on a road where we began to walk to a dalla dalla pickup. While we were waiting we saw Tabit and Kessi outside of Soodis house and asked them to come. About an hour later a dalla dalla showed up to pick us up.
The ride to stonetown took FOREVER! They made a thousand stops, one extra long one to pick up huge bundles of sticks and put them off the roof. We finally got to stonetown and it was almost 12:15. Once we got out, we had to find a ATM so I could get some shillings. We walked all over and finally found one that took a MasterCard, and then we were off. Walking down the streets I eyed some nutella in a store and bought it immediately along with some peanut butter for me and alivianna. We walked to the next store and David saw suitcases that he needed. His apparently had broken so he got one for a good price which ended up being awesome because we carried all of our crap in the suitcase all day. Tabit refused to let David carry his suitcase so we felt bad pretty much all day.
We then walked around and found a store that David had seen amazing paintings in before. I wasn't really in the painting buying business until we got to this store. They had amazing paintings and so different than the others. After befriending the store clerks and telling them our life stories, we got them to lower their prices significantly and I got two huge paintings for about 60,000, the price of the van ride.
We then met up with the girls, had some gelato and got to head around to get the girls some paintings. I haggled for some new sunglasses since mine broke ( my bargaining skills are excellent, I won't lie) and then helped Marnee get her painting down.
Afterward, we let the girls get back in their plush taxi and we headed to the market to get some fruit and bread and head home. The market was basically closed when we got there so we got some bananas and mango for aliviana, and David was scammed into buying passion fruit, and we waited about an hour for a bus.
Finally the bus showed up and we all squeezed into a bus that was already filled to capacity. They pushed me into the back with Tabit and two of the fattest men ive ever seen. I was literally squished up to the back of the other seat. David and kessi were shoved up front and a little girl was thrown on david's lap. We had an amazingly long ride home.
We drove literally 100 feet and a policeman stopped us. Pretty soon our bus driver was being arrested for being a repeat offender of having too many people in the car. We didn't know what to do but 45 mins later another guy got in and drove another hundred feet and stopped. ANOTHER 45 mins go by and we are greeted by our original driver and kessi said he narrowly escaped jail.
As hilarious as that is, picture this happening while tabit is blaring Michael Jackson on my iPod and these Swedish girls are glaring at me. Hilarious.
So we finally get going and we stop again and David and kessi are yelling to give money to them. Unsure of what's going on I told them no! Finally I realized they stopped the whole bus for me to get bread, I died laughing. About 3 hours later we had to take a walk on the beach in the Rain for us to get back to the hotel while kessi carried our now really heavy suitcase the whole way above his head. We had wet clothes and tired bodies at dinner but I packed my bags for arusha and headed to bed.
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