Hey Terra!
I wanted to tell you about the fun I had today, so, my family and I went down to the beach along with Lauren and Nicole! Since we had woke up that morning, we knew it was going to be bad weather but we went anyway 'cause we had a backup plan. It was stormy and overcast the whole morning. I know Africa is pretty dry usually, but when is the "rainy season" and what is it like when it storms down there? Are there hurricanes? Anyway, on the ride there we chatted mostly and laughed a lot. When we got there the sky was pretty dark but not that bad. So, we went on the beach while my dad found a parking space and then caught up with us on the beach. I had brought a tube so Lauren, Nicole, and I all went and rode the waves! The water was 72 degrees and surprisingly really warm! Clear, circular jellyfish kept bumping up against us and we would scream "JELLYFISHHHHHH!!!!" at the top of our lungs every time. The clear jellyfish are harmless so we could hold them and take a look at them, I'm not exaggerating when I say there were at least 26 in the water with us. Do you have anything potentially dangerous where you swim? In Malawi, are there any foreign animals or bugs that we don't have here? If so, what do they look like and what do they eat? The only one we had to watch out for was this vibrant red one, it would sting us if we tried to pick it up or got near it! Well, after 40 minutes in the water, it started to thunder and so we had to get off the beach, we didn't really mind that much because we had got some pretty decent time in the water. We swiftly grabbed our things and ran to Joey Tomato's, home of the BEST pizza in the world!!!!! We got two hee-uge regular pies and there was only one slice left.... which was eaten shortly since the pizza there is pretty much irresistible. Is the pizza you have in Malawi tasty? I hope it is because I know you like it! :) Anyway, it was still raining so we went into the arcade, otherwise known as "Frank's Fun Center". My parents gave us money and we spent literally 3 hours playing in there! First, we tried to win some stuffed animals, but the crane machines weren't picking up, so we went into the back where we played the slots and Joker Poker. It was sooooo much fun!!!!!! Do you have arcades in Malawi? If you do, does it have slot machines and poker? If it does, you should try it sometime because it's a blast! Anyway, we were trying to win lots of tickets so we could redeem them for something cool at the prize counter, you had to have thousands of tickets for everything. Anyway, we had some luck at the slots and then tried Joker Poker, you could win up to 5000 tickets if you played right. We won hundreds of tickets each!!!! So, get a load of this, while we were there, a lady from the state was checking the machines to make sure they were fairly picking up for the players. My dad was talking to her and she said it was the worst arcade she had ever seen ( meaning that nothing was picking up, not that it was a bad arcade.) and that it was being fined $750 dollars! So, the Joker Poker machine had eaten one of my quarters, the game never even started! My dad was talking to one of the arcade guys telling him what happened and the guy walked up to me and gave me handfuls of tickets!!! The guy thought my dad was an investigator because he saw my dad talking to the arcade lady! We went to the " Ticket Eater" and fed it our tickets and in exchange got the receipt for our amount of tickets each. I had many tickets! So, then we went to the prize counter and chose what we wanted to redeem our tickets for. I got a pink fish figurine and a purple spikey ball!!! Nicole got a turtle figurine and a little pirate guy for her sister while Lauren got us and herself monkey paddle balls, she also got a jumping frog! Don't worry, it wasn't real! I thought it was a really fun day! On the way home we stopped at Strollo's for an Italian ice, it was so good! The day was over but the good times never ended! Terra, I wish you would've been there, that's the only thing that could've made it better! When you come back, you can come with us!! I miss you so much! I'm counting down the days until December!! MUCHO AMORE!
SINCERELY ME,
SINCERELY ME,
RACHEL :)
Hey Rachel,
Sounds like a great day you had with Lauren and Nicole. When it's the rainy season it just rains for days and days without stopping. Usually the electricity goes off each night which I though was really cool and first but then when we were in the middle of cooking dinner and it went off it was really annoying! We have crocodiles and hippos were we swim but it's safe in the actual areas that we swim in. It's not safe for the local fisherman though who go out deep. There have been stories of crocodiles jumping up into their boats! I'm sure we have lots of different bugs and things but I don't know what the names are and everything about them. The pizza isn't very good here especially at my school but there are a couple of places where we can get decent pizza. I don't think we have arcades here and if we do I've never been to one but I always loved going to them back at home. I miss you so much!!!
Terra
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