Beach Day!!

Our first full day in Morocco began after a well-needed full night of sleep.

We ate a traditional breakfast with handmade pastries, cafe au lait, jus de mangue, jus d'orange,
and homemade bread and noodles.

The boys knew that a trip to the beach was on the agenda and decided to get their beach bods ready.

Once we got on the bus, it was time to head out for the day. We first went to a Portugese fort from 500 A.D. Then we visited an estuary

and a reserve where we took many photos, both serious and goofy.

Marita and Matt befriended one of the many cows that wanders the city.

At the fort, Mr. Defaa and his nieces and nephews posed for a family photo.

When we visited the estuary, we saw a lot of different kinds of flora and fauna and posed for some group photos.

After that we headed to the beach. When we got there, Mr. Defaa alerted us that it was "the most dangerous beach in Morocco," so we shouldn't go in the water. We ran around in the
sand despite the strong wind and chilly temperatures. We managed to get one group photo but moments after the photo was taken, a wave caught us all by surprise and soaked our pantlegs
with ocean water and sand.

We decided to head to a cafe to get drinks before we went back to the house in Kenitra to freshen up.

On the way home we stopped at a fish market and got some shrimp and calamari for our dinner feast. It was cool to see but it didn't make the bus smell great....

We returned to the house where we've been sleeping to get ready for dinner. We eventually headed to Mr. Defaa's brother, Achmed's, house. He is a professional chef so our expectations
for dinner were high. Dinner went above and beyond those expectations though with legs of chicken, a type of pie that contained the fish we bought earlier, noodles, chicken, and lots of
vegetables.

After dinner we all hung out drinking tea, enjoying desserts, and talking until 2:30 in the morning. It didn't feel that late to most of us though because the time difference between
the east coast and Morocco is 5 hours, so it only felt like 9:30 to us! All the fun did take it's toll on us though because we all slept until 11:30 the next day!