Merry Merry From Zanzibar

It is seeming that a lot of my blogs are starting with ``it has been a long time since I have posted'' which it has. We are in Zanzibar for Christmas on a postcard perfect sandy beach. Yes the postcards dont lie. Lately the weather has been overcast here on Zanzibar but a couple of days it has been in the high 30s to low 40s. Dad and Mom found Stone Town a little to "lonely planetyyy" for them and I aggree it was alittle over the top. With people hassling you almost every time you step out the door it got a little much. It took until the thrid day to figure out the meal thing with us paying 40 the first night, 22 the second night and 8 the last night. Mom and Dad have satified there coffee need with two latte's from the Zanzibar Coffee House and a expresso from on the street. Our hotel was the Flamingo in which was a little our from tourist ville and had tons of tiny streets near to go exploring. We found that there was one alley that was the true tourist hot spot with all the gifts and souviners at your finger tips. We rode a converted truck out to the beach. It is like a small pick-up truck are staying with a roof and bench seets. We are staying at the Red-Monkey Bungalows which is true to his name with enough Monkeys for it to be able to be a consevation site for the Red Monkey which is endangered. It is quite nice with a massive sand bar and swimming. The tide is the only problem beacuase whzen it goes out it goes out and it is only in for a short period of time. We have found ways around that with us walking out on the sand bar before diving in. Tons of creatures to see and just today I saw a mini squid shot out black ink beacuse i spooked him.
Muheza seemed ok when we left. We took the worlds fastest Daladala out to the airüpport which left almost immediatly which is very unusual. The pilot of the plane was from sidney. Yes sidney BC and he reconiced my Canucks Tshirt. He said he remembered Tanners Book Shop and all that. That was quite funny. The Amos family (Ben and Sally) had all come down with a cold just after there safari in the serengetti which brought back many great stories from Maxee (4) and Zacha (7). Now that we have left it looks like Alex has cuaght the cold to so we left at a very good time. Sunday night Catan carrys on as usual with the medical students. Now that we have just recieved Seafarers(another extension) we will be even more popular. I have just started to work and give my input on the Teule website and school is already going to be back in 2 weeks. ahh. Mom is back from Canada which as you all know happened a while ago but I am just that slow on the posts. Another AT news will be sent to rose soon and a christmas special plus pics whn i get around to it. I will hopefully write again soon. Merry Merry again and Happy New Year. Love to all. G