ligretto fever

It's official, ligretto has taken over! the house flipping love it! when every we have a spare like 10mins people are like, `cheeky game of ligretto?` ...and an hour later we are still there playing it. It's pretty class! And you woul think that s the owner of the game, who has known how to play for more than like 4 days, I would have the upper hand, but oh no, my friend Rachel is on fire like every game!
Anyway, moving on from Ligretto...so I'm currently sat at a computer looking out of the window into a white sandy beach which has palm trees with hammocks dotted around, an amazing turquoise sea...its actually paradise here! We (Emily, Rachel, Alice and myself) flew out here to Zanzibar on Saturday morning. The flight was awesome, it was a small plan with propellers! As we flew out over Arusha, we could see the top of Mt Kilimanjaro peeping up abouve the clouds. It was quite a sight. Then as we approached Zanzibar, you saw tiny little islands with amaing turquiose patches of sea surrounding them.The island is quite literally like what you would see on a post card; its beautiful. After landing we went on a spice tour. Zanzibar is well known for growing loads of spices, and the tour was really interesting.We saw all the plants that the spices grew, were asked to guess what they were from the smell of their leaves (...I was actually useless at this, I come to think that my sense of smell is actually pretty crap haha! I managed to work out what like none of then were!).  We also saw 'mr butterfly man' climb a coconut tree with nothing to help him but a loop of rope around his feet. There were points when he was at the top of the tree, doing like acrobatic style things that my heart skipped  beat, I was kinda scared for him! But he was quite obviously fine, he can climb up to 200 coconut trees is a day, I think he is pretty well practiced!!
So we are staying at a place called Kendwa Rocks. The rooms are pretty basic, but its linked right to the beach and is actually a really cool place! Saturday night there was a full moon party, which wasn't actually on the beach like what I was expecting but just in the bar attached to the hotel. There were a few kind of acts before the music started, some acrobatics, a Michael Jackson dancer guy...was borderline freaky, but cool to watch haha! It was kind of bizarre dancing, the African people get sooo into the music! And they have so much rhythm, its embarrassing dancing next to them, you look like you have two left feet haha! And you can by just dancing away, and you will see like 2 Masai guys wearing full on Masai gear, wander past and start dancing! There are some pretty cool people here that we have met. We had dinner today with a guy from California, we bumped into a group of people Alica and Rachel know from climbing Kili ...its nice to meet a few different people from different parts of the world.
The past two days have been really relaxing, we have literally just sat at the beach enjoying the ...well not so much sun, more clouds! It's still pretty warm, but there has no way been clear blue skys! In a way I'm kinda glad because despite the slight lack of sun, I have still managed to slightly resemble a lobster :( I noticed my legs getting sightly pink ...and then felt them getting abit hotter, and by the end of the day they were noticeably burnt, not a good luck! After going to my room though that evening, I realised I really shouldn't be that bothered because they could be semi hidden by longer shorts...my face on the other hand could not! Whoops! Its calming down now, and fingers crossed will just go nice and brown soon haha!
Myself and Emily are heading back to mainland Tanzania tomorrow afternoon, back at the hospital on Tuesday! It will be quite nice to be back at the house! It' going to be pretty quiet now, most people have left! There will only be about 6 of us I think! Small groups are nice though, less washing up after tea too!!
Anyway, this computer doesn't tell me how long I have left so I'll not risk loosing this and leave it there! I'll blog again back in Arusha!