Joe and I kinda lost out on our day in Dakar. We got all ready to go early, (by 9 am, I was the slowpoke today, for a change! – really, I was on time all the other days!) and I met Joe in his room. Somehow, we both ended up passing out for over a good hour, and then we decided to head out, but we were worried about time now, (we had wanted to see Goree Island). We made it to the dock (we were already SO sick of all the people haggling haggling haggling for this that and every other thing, it was so frustrating). The ferry had just left and now we were out of luck to get there and back in a reasonable time. We went all the way back to the hotel and found out how nice the hotel atmosphere really was; there was outdoor seating by a pool overlooking the ocean and it was lovely and relaxing. We had a 2 hour lunch there before our flight, why didn’t we just come here in the first place!
The flight was lovely. I really wasn’t even afraid (maybe because it was only 25 minutes??) AND we were on Brussels airlines. The hotel pickup never made it to the airport and we ended up jumping in a car with a couple more hagglers which I was a little skeptical about; but we made it to this simply gorgeous hotel in the middle of poverty-stricken Gambia. It’s like heaven here, and we can even eat normal food like fruits and vegetables! It’s overlooking the beach and has 9 swimming pools and amazing ambience. I feel like I really should be here on a hot romantic getaway; not with a co-worker who just got married!
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