Casablanca Day Three:

Well today was interesting. To say the LEAST. First, we woke up an hour early because we didn’t change our clocks for day lights saving time (cuz we’re retarded obviously). Then we went down to the bus station looking for our trip to Marrakech (which we were super excited for (there are snake charmers there, monkeys you can hold, and huge bazaars), and there was no bus. We were like…what’s going on. We needed to be out here at 7am and there’s nothing here. Well, turns out that they double booked us. Yesterday when we went to Rabat, we were supposed to have gone to Marrakech, but the yellow book said it was today. Well, the changed the trip last minute, so we didn’t get the memo. We missed the trip. We were TICKED! We really didn’t have the time to reschedule either or take our own trip. We only had a day and a half. We were super disappointed, and even though we got reimbursed, we still feel like we got rather screwed out of a huge experience. It’s just an excuse for us to go back to Morocco though. So…it’ll work out in the end.
Anyway, we went back to sleep for a bit. Woke up when lunch was over, so we missed it. We decided we should make a trip to the grocery store (and we figured we’d pick up lunch on the way, though we didn’t). It took us awhile to get there because we really didn’t know where it was and we got some interesting directions in a mix of Spanish, French, English, and Arabic. We finally made it though, and stocked up big time. I bought 21 kinder bueno bars, snacks, sodas, and some water bottles. We filled a whole backpack to the top and James’ carry on suitcase. We got a quick cab, and made it back to the port a ok, and pretty cheaply too. After we unloaded, we decided to head back for more internet. There were some quick things we needed to do. Then we went back to the ship. THEN we decided to go to the Souk that was right outside the port for some last minute shopping. Man. We got some stuff done. We also bought more luggage, which was a great decision in the end. We spent a pretty decent amount of time there. There was a lot to see and plenty of little stalls to bargain at. By the time we were done, it was around 6pm (note we had NOT ate yet). We were famished. Big time. We remembered seeing a pizza hut close to the port the first day on the tour, and we knew we were close, so we headed towards that. We figured we were starving. We needed some tastes of home. Anyway. We got hopelessly lost and decided we needed to ask. We saw a group of three girls walking towards us dressed really modern, no headscarves, and while they were modest, they had really fashionable clothes. So. We decided they prolly spoke English, and we were right.
The girls were super nice. They led us straight to Pizza Hut. The one girl who was the leader said that she was only 22, but she had some gray in her hair, and she looked a little older. We didn’t care too much though, she took us to the food. Lol. It was actually a little bit of a walk, but they were super nice about it and we finally made it there in one piece. The food was awesome. We downed a huge pizza. Two sodas each, and a bowl of pasta. It was stupid almost.
Afterwards, we headed back to the boat. We didn’t want to be out too long, and the sun was setting. We ended up chilling at the boat all night. We hung out in 2050 and watched the movie that was on. I still had a lot of homework, so I went to town on that too. It was an interesting day. A good one overall I’d say, but it started out a little auspicious.