Monday was yet another national holiday here, so we decided to enjoy the low season (and rates) of Zanzibar. What easy access we have to one of the more exotic sounding places...the Arusha airport is about 2 miles away and there's a one hour direct flight to Zanzibar. Amazingly easy, well it was until our taxi broke down on the way to our hotel, but that let us sit with some village kids until a new ride arrived. Our hotel was perfect for a quick weekend get-away. We spent almost all of the time in the pool where even Anderson could stand (although it turns out he much preferred to swim). We did walk to a turtle reserve up the beach a little ways and we did go on a sunset boat ride (on one of the old dhow boats). We'll have to save the cultural excursions for next time (spice tours, tours of Stonetown, etc). Ash did get pretty sick the last day, so that did put a bit of a damper on an already overcast and rainy day, but Matt caught some jelly fish for her to look at while Anderson and Tierney played in the ocean (I was not too excited about swimming with the jellyfish). The hotel also had two little kittens that kept the kids entertained for hours.
We left with an Anderson and came back with a fish:
Tierney playing in the ocean (where we caught the jellyfish):
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