The Red Boat (Ashagre)

On Sunday I awoke to the sound of the TV blaring. I got up and changed and walked outside and saw my dad watching the news. We got our bags and put them in the trunk. We went to the ferry terminal. We got on the boat. The ferry can carry more people than the Catalina Express. It can carry about 500 people. When we got to Zanzibar we had to wait until our bags came in the cart. The people would push the cart fast and a man would hop over a rope so he didn’t trip. The rope is supposed to slow down the cart. It felt like he was going to trip over the rope any moment and get smashed by the heavy cart. The boat terminal was crazy. People were rushing and people pushing carts would make a lot of noise. People pulling carts would drop the handle and that would make a lot of noise because it echoed. 

Finally we got out of the boat terminal and went to our hotel. When we entered our room I went to the bathroom which stunk because the plumbing wasn’t that good in Zanzibar so smells come from the sewer. We checked into our hotel and walked down to the Ethiopian restaurant but I checked the sign it said they were open for lunch from 12:00 - 3:00. It was past 3 o’clock so we had to go back for dinner. We walked to this place where they had a lot of meat and less vegetables. I got spinach and white rice. We sat outside because it was hot in there. They gave me a lot of rice so I ate a lot of that first. We walked back to our hotel and did nothing until we got hungry. So we walked down to the Ethiopian restaurant and we ate. The tibbs could have been a lot better at the Ethiopian restaurant. We got back to our hotel and got ready for bed. 

This is me riding on the ferry VIP class.

This is where we ate lunch in Stone Town.