Piga Picha Tena: Rainy Season, and Morocco

Pictures:
1- The Mpangala's feeding each other cake at their wedding. Because I had made the cake I cut it for them, then fed everyone else at the wedding a piece.
2- Honey I Shrunk the Village, everything has become overgrown from all the rain, huts in my town are now hidden behind wildflowers, corn, and sunflowers.
3- Every morning the pup and I go for a hike, at 5 months old he has vuvumkaa'd (flourished)
4- MOROCCO The main square in Marrakesh lit up at night with food vendors, snake charmers, monkeys, and more.
5- A tannery in fez. We sniffed sprigs of mint to cover the heavy stench of hides.
6- The mosques had amazing detail work. If you look closely you can see all the intricate carving. The Koran is carved into walls of this once university turned mosque in Fez.
7- Narrow walkways in the souk.
8- Turn off to Casablanca on our way from Essouira to Fez (11 hour drive).
9- We did a lot of driving from city to city, passing lots of fields like this one.
10- Transportation: cars, motorcycles, bikes, and donkeys, all sharing the city streets.
11- While hiking to a waterfall in the middle Atlas mountains we walked through olive tree forests with mellow olive eating monkeys.
12- A camel's view of Essouira, a coastal city where Jimi Hendrix and Cat Stevens use to hang.
13- Essouira.
14- View from our room above the Atlantic...first time I've seen the atlantic in about 9 months.
15- Sunrise in Essouira.
16- Flying Emirates meant passing through Dubai. I had 10 hour layovers on the way there and back (in the middle of the night). The airport however, was amazing. This fountain had a small forest of trees, where live doves lived. I sat at the Starbucks next to it and sipped a very surreal Americano.
17- More Dubai airport. On my way home I did the following: got a pint of beer at an irish pub, duty free shopped, read all the gossip magazines, got cake batter ice cream at cold stone creamery at 4:30 a.m., walked miles of moving sidewalk, and people watched endlessly.
18- Tusker and Milo spooning on my couch...before Tusker grew up and got all rowdy.
19- Rainy season sunset at site : )
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