Morocco - Days 3 & 4

Day 3

The third day in Morocco, I was supposed to go with two other friends to Marrakech, a city about 3 hours south of Casablanca, but we decided not to the night before because we were afraid we wouldn't get back in time on the last day.

So, instead I stayed in Casablanca.. and tried to find something to do!  My friends and I set out to find a movie theater that played movies in English.. since we were running out of things to see in Casablanca and a movie theater would take us out of the hot Moroccan sun.. but we couldn't find one.  We stopped in the Hyatt hotel and asked the Consierge desk and they said that the movies played were only in French or Arabic.. so we were out of luck!  The Hyatt Hotel, though, was amazing! It was sooo fancy and pretty inside.. the whole place when you walked in was shiny black marble and silver accents everywhere.  There were bright red rugs to walk on also.. and  in the lobby there was a Louis Vuitton store!!!  It was crazy!

After we couldn't find a movie in English.. we went on the hunt for henna!  My friends and I tried asking a local woman with her two girls, but they couldn't speak English.. but they tried to tell us where we could find henna with a type of charade-style motions.. it was really nice of them, but we still didn't get it.  So, we went back to a shop we were at the day before where the man spoke very good English and we asked him.  He ended up walking us there because it was not far away.. and we found a lady sitting on the steps inside the Bazaar with a board of designs and her equipment just set out on the ground.  Her daughter was sitting next to her on a piece of cardboard and offered my friend Kim the cardboard to sit on when she sat next to her.. it was so nice of the little girl, but Kim refused it because the girl needed it more than she did.  So.. me and my roommate Alyssa got our henna done.. and it was amazing!  That lady was soooo goood.. she did it really fast and all free-hand.  Alyssa got a design on her hand and up her wrist and I got one on my foot and up my calf.. both of ours were done in less than 15 minutes, which was way shorter than what we thought!

After getting our henna.. we walked across the street to a cafe to sit for awhile while the henna dried so we didn't mess it up.  Unfortunately, I messed a little part on my foot up walking over there because my shoe rubbed it.. but we ended up fixing it and it still looks good!!

After that, we didn't do much that I can remember.. and we were on the ship for dinner.. and then they had a movie night where they showed Hitch so we went to that!

 

 

Day 4

Today was a sad day... it was the last day of our last port.. and the last time we'll see land for a long time!!  I couldn't believe getting off the boat this morning that the next time I get off will be in America!! That's such a weird thought to me!

We got off the boat early this morning so we could go to the Bazaar and do the last of our shopping and spend up the rest of our money!!  When we got to the Bazaar, most of the shops were just opening up since we forgot that our ship time is an hour ahead of Moroccan time.. so we wandered around for awhile until all of the shops opened up.  We shopped for awhile and then the other 2 girls with my roommate and I yesterday and today liked our henna so much they wanted to get some done too.. so we found the same lady again and they both got things on their hands!  After henna, we did some more shopping and managed to get back to the port gate in time for the last shuttle before they took a 3 hour break.. so we didn't have to walk all the way back to the boat with our bags! that was nice!!

We got back to the boat and I laid out for awhile before dinner.. and at dinner we got a cake from our friend kim's mom who ordered it for her and it said "homeward bound" which I thought was hilarious!!! So we ate that.. and then our captain said we were leaving an hour early.. so we departed from Morocco at about 7pm tonight and now we're 3 1/2 hours into our trek across the Atlantic! 

Now I have a busy week ahead of me.. 4 days of class, a day for our global studies test, a study day, a day for our exams and then 2 days of nothing and then we'll be in Norfolk!

 

I'm off to do some homework before class tomorrow!  Keep checking though because I will be posting some random funny things on the way home when I'm really bored!!