Last Friday was a day
filled with painting: Henk started on the second coat and finished
the living room, while Margreet started on the door frames giving
them a nice fresh look (white).
On Saturday we walked to a
nearby beach. We did it in half an hour and we shared the whole beach
with twenty others! The water is clear but quite cool (12C?). The
beach belongs to hotel Voile d’Or and for $2 one can use their
facilities. Another $2 gives you a lounge chair with mattress and a
parasol. We might splurge next time!!
Margreet took some
pictures, but they don’t show well as the Harmattan winds are quite
strong reducing visibility drastically. We lazied away the afternoon,
reading and playing games.
Our neighbour Sharon (from
Minnesota) invited us to come with her to church, we enjoyed being
with the same ICF group.
Afterwards we had lunch in the food court of
a new, upscale, shopping mall Sea Plaza, obviously geared towards the
foreigners living on this side of town and worlds apart from the open
air markets we passed on the way home.
Margreet
has been using Otrivin to keep her nose passages open, but finds it
hard to sleep; it never really gets quiet at night, certainly missing
that from home. She took it easy on Monday. While Henk finished
painting, Gaby was smoothing out the bottom five inches of the rooms
with cement. The new vinyl borders that come with the lino are an
inch shorter than the original ones. He is doing a great job, but it
will take a good day and a half. The plumber showed up and installed
the toilet. Haven’t dared to flush it to see if it doesn’t leak…
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