Our Adventures (Ashagre)

Yesterday we were in Dubai. We had a five hour plane ride to Dar Es Salaam. My sister and I watched movies on the plane ride. When we got off the plane I was tired. We had to get a visa stamp which took us an a hour because Emirates was one of the big airlines and there were a lot of people on the plane. Then we outside and looked for our driver. My mom found him and he said he was was going to get the car because he parked it far. I was guessing which car he had. He finally arrived with a sliver Toyota. That was not the car I was thinking he would bring in. I kept falling asleep and waking up and my mom would keep waking me and my sister up. We got to our hotel and signed in. We were on the fifth floor. We put our stuff in our rooms and relaxed for little while. We went down for dinner and ordered our food. When we were waiting for dinner I kept falling sleep and my mom was laughing because I kept falling asleep because of jet lag and then my sister was falling sleep too. Then our food arrived. I wanted to go to bed instead of eat. So I put a little amount of food on my plant so I wouldn’t fall sleep when I was eating. When I finished eating I was asleep. When I awoke everyone was done eating except my sister. Finally we went back to our hotel and got ready to go to bed.

We were going on a adventure on Wednesday. I got up at 7:30. I looked around the room and I was expecting my sister to be in the room snoring but she wasn’t. I thought that they forgot about me or it was prank. I walked out my bedroom and looked to see if my mom was in the room. Then I saw the shower door closed so somebody was in it. Then my mom come out of the shower room. I told her I thought you were showering Elsa. I showered and got dressed for the day. We walked to the National History Museum. It was about evolution and early humans. Then we got lunch. I got beef and rice and thats what my sister got. My mom and dad got chicken and rice. Then we went to the fish market. On the way there people would call me rasta because of my hair. It made me feel a little weird. The fish market didn’t small well. The people soldd fish, corn, octopus, and lots more. We walked back to our hotel. My mom asked for a bottle of water. We went to get dinner. When we came to the door I said it isn’t open until 7:30. Then dad said no thats for the buffet. We got the same food as on Tuesday. Then Elsa and dad and mom started to sleep because dad awoke at 4:00 in the morning and Elsa awoke at 6:30 and my mom awoke three times so she didn’t get enough sleep. Mom and dad and Elsa took the elevator because they were too tired to go on the stairs but I took the stairs and it was faster. We got ready for bed. 

On Thursday I awoke by the sound of my dad singing at 3:30 AM. We all got dressed and got in the car. We were going to the airport. When we arrived at the airport and looked at the departures. We waited in line to drop our bags. When it was our turn she said we had to wait until our destination showed on the screen. We waited until our destination was on the screen then we got in line and drop our bags off. We were going to Kilimanjaro Airport. I looked at the sign and saw Kilimanjaro and the gate number which was 7. I told my family that we were on gate 7 and they looked at sign. We sat on a chair and I eat a Cliff Bar. Then I told my mom that I was going to read and she said why don’t you do that too Elsa. Then we walked outside to the plane. I haven’t ever walked outside to get on a plane before. The plane wasn’t what I was thinking it would be. I though it would be smaller than it was. The plane ride was 1hour and fifteen minutes. When we got off the plane mom wanted to take a picture of the plane and so did I. I went to go to the bathroom. We looked for our driver. Our mom saw him. We got in the car. Our driver talked a lot. He said it is too early to check in our hotel so we got breakfast. We got Tanzanian donuts. He said it is too early still. So we went to a museum. The museum had African art like paintings and carvings. Then we went to check into our hotel. We went to the office of our safari company to pay. We had Ethiopian food for a late lunch. The tibbs were really good. Then we got back to our hotel and did our homework by the swimming pool. Tomorrow we’re having a relaxing day at the hotel before we go on safari. I can’t wait to go on safari!

This is me at the National History Museum next to pictures Tanzanian rock art.

This is the airplane we rode in.

This is me at the art museum.