Recovering

Hi everyone!!

Yesterday was interesting... it looks like even we can't overcome the harsh conditions of Africa in the first two weeks here.

Yesterday we rented bikes and made our way to this quiet beach out of town that has less garbage than most around here and were excited to spend a bit of time relaxing in the sun. But unfortunately, Krystal all of a sudden started seeing white everywhere and almost fainted a few times. It was really scary. Darl luckily knew what to do and got a shirt wet to soak Krystal's head with and eventually we made it back to the road. We met these rich snotty french people who considered giving us a ride in their fancy SUV with their fancy African guide but changed their mind because it might have been a bit uncomfotable for them and left us their with a quarter left of their water bottle! but luckily we did meet a nice local guy who owned a nearby restaurant and he flagged down a taxi for us. we promised to eat at his restaurant when we were feeling better!

since then we have basically just been sleeping and trying to recover. looks like we probably had heat exhaustion from a combo of hard workouts, the shits, and trop de soleil! We are starting to realise we aren't as hardcore as we once thought!

don't worry, we have a nice comfortable room to relax in right now and we know this town well so its probably the best place we could have gotten sick.

Love you all,

Krystal and Darl

attention! passage du crocodiles

st louis continues to be full of excitement; we ate another amazing meal with out new senegalese family today and drank thé senegalese avec sucre et beaucoup du menthe, c' etait tres bien! we all ate on the floor in a circle from a giant communal bowl, it was fun! and learned about some other delicious foods, like manioc; a potato-like fruit that grows in a tree and these little nuts that taste like raisins. we also went to this amazing bird sancutary and saw millions of huge pelicans and some crocodiles and a giant snake!

bonjour from st louis

hi! so we survived a long annoying trip thattook 12hrs to travel less than 300km and now are staying in st louis.

things we have encountered lately include;

a man trying to pull down darls pants for his change

someone trying to steal krystals keen sandals

a beatiful long beach in a village called yoff but littered with fish guts, goat guts, and goats eatingthe guts and kids poking the guts!

4 goats strapped to the top of our van for yesterdays trip

we are out of time on the internet

love u!!!

dakar, senegal

hi friends and family!!

man, its going to take some getting used to these keyboards!! took a while to find the @ key!
so we survived our first two days in africa. got ripped off at the airport, but eventually made it to our guesthouse. things here are quite expensive so we are being pretty stingy and havent eaten a good meal yet! but we did find beans and a baguette and celebrated our arrival with cheap wine on a roof top!

we did our first run along the beach in 30 degree heat, found some other local runners who look like soccer players and we kicked their butts!!

today we managed to take a local bus downtown and krystal is practicing her french a lot!! no, merci comes in handy at the markets and trop cher!!!

the sounds and smells here are amazing, it is sooo bright! the sun is out until 8pm, which is nice because we arent brave enough to go out at night yet! last night went to bed at 9ish and slept until noon! feeling less jet lagged now! and so far no bed bugs.

missing everyone back home, we will try to write again soon.

love krystal and darl

wendy!

wendy, since when are you a contributor??!!

Back to Ontario

We are off to Ontario tomorrow to finish up our goodbyes and then our flight leaves Jan 15th to Senegal, Africa. We are flying to Senegal through Washington; hope they let me bring my purse on the plane!