Saturday 11 August 2012

Lazy Day

Today was a very relaxing, lazy day. We slept in until about noon since we got in pretty late last night and then we got ready and went to Old Town, a very touristy location with a bunch of little shops with handmade items. I bought some things to bring home, and looked at a whole bunch more. I’ll have to go back at another time to shop some more now that I know what is all there. They work really hard to sell you things, but usually they will bargain with you. It’s a really hard thing to bargain for everything here when no one bargains for anything back home. People here will definitely try and get as much money out of you as possible. A group of us (not my group) actually got scammed while they were there by a guy who told them he was security and was going to take them around to the shops. At the end of walking around, he said that they needed to pay him for taking them on tour of the place. They did, but not nearly what he asked. They weren’t very happy about it. When people like that came up to us, we made it very clear that we would not need a tour guide. Anyways, it was certainly an experience to go shopping here.

We had a barbeque tonight and it was really good to finally have American food (and not have to pay extra for it). Then we all came to Café Mocha to use the free wifi and to get ice cream in celebration of Mia’s last night. We are all super tired, so I don’t think we’ll stay here very late. Its good to be able to relax like this on these days.
I swear that I will get more pictures up soon!

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