APRIL 28, 2008 (We're Not Leaving Yet)

So we were supposed to be on a flight back to South Africa last Friday, but we kind of decided that we love Zanzibar too much and wanted to spend more time here, so we managed to get our flight changed to this morning. Hopefully that will be our last flight change, although people are trying to get us to take on a managerial position at one of the resorts around here! Haha. We are having such an amazing time here, weather has been pretty great and our friends from the safari (Nina and Adam) met us here and so the four of us have been spending time together. Thursday, we went snorkelling at some amazing reefs. Had another water-related scare however...we were in a pretty beat up wooden boat with some Rastafarians who were pretty high. Not that big of a problem, however, as we were coming back from the reefs, we sailed right into a huge storm and had to trust a bunch of half-baked dudes to get us and our boat (which was leaking) back safely. They threw a huge tarp over our heads and we just stayed underneath it, more to avoid seeing what was happening than to keep dry! Other than that we've just been relaxing and partying. We did have some major excitement the other day though...we found a German guy on the side of the road who had been riding his bike, when he was hit with a plank of wood by a 14 year old kid and knocked off his bike unconscious. The kid then stole his bag, including his passport, money and camera, while he lay there bleeding and unconscious. We took him to the police station and to the village doctor, as well as called our friend Nina, who is a plastic surgeon, to come and help take care of him. If we hadn't have found him, he may have died, so we were pretty blown away by how you can just be meant to be in a certain place at a certain time.
Last night we celebrated the final night of our trip together with our friends, Nina and Adam. Adam went and bought some tuna and 4 octopi from local fisherman, fresh out of the water. We took them to a random little shack on the beach, where we paid some locals to cook it all up for us. We just sat at a little wooden table right on the beach, watching the sun go down as we drank wine right from the bottle (or box) and gnoshed on the most amazing seafood dinner, cooked in a coconut sauce. We then spent the rest of the night singing every single song that we could possibly remember the words to, while the local guys provided backup on their makeshift drums. Definitely an amazing way to say goodbye to an awesome trip and awesome friends!
Now it's back to Cape Town for a week, where we will have to say goodbye to more awesome friends that we have made there, before heading back to Canada via Amsterdam for a day. As amazing as all of this has been, I definitely feel ready to be home again.