Category: Morocco

We’ve had three guides named Mohammed. Each one of them have funny expressions. Mohammed I, who we spent seven days with said: “no problem in the bush”, “fantastic like plastic”. But most of all he said, “that’s aaaaawwwwwwwsome,”

Mohammed II was our guide in Fez, (but his name was really Ahmed), and he said: “Amelia you are happy as a clam”

Mohammed III has been our guide for 11 days. When he is telling us about the history of Morocco he often pauses and says “etcetera, etcetera, etcetera,” just like in The King and I.

We woke up early and went straight to the train station, to hop on a train to Marrakech. We had own little table and nice seats in 1st class. I looked out the window and saw the Moroccan landscape go by, and soon 3 hours had passed and were in Marakesh. Right as we got off the train, the first thing we noticed was how unbelievably hot it was. I immediately took off my sweater, put on my hat, slipped on my sunglasses, and pulled out my bandana.

Our Riad Miski, had a driver waiting for us. He drove us into the old city and then skillfully worked his way through the narrow and busy alleys towards our Riad Miski. We had to carry our bags and walk the last little bit of the journey, we knocked on a simple black door, and viola, Christine greet us with a nice hot cup of mint tea and showed us to our bedroom. While Momma nathalie and momma laurie worked out the buisness part, i explored the wonderful riad. i discovered birds singing over my head on the third floor and a wonderful on the first floor in the middle The Riad. It was a very open building and quite pleasant. After I was done exploring the wonderful Riad, Christine took us around the Souk. First she worked her wa through the maze to take us to her favorite wood carver. I discovered two things that I liked, a magic box that even Leonardo Di Caprio could not figure out how to open, and a scary box filled with a wooden carved snack. when you opened it the snake would snap out and bite you with his wire teeth. The shop owner also made me a good luck charm that he carved with his toes and strung a red string for me. Then it was off to Christine’s favorite soap maker. We wound our way though the twisty labrynth, to the soap maker. as I walked in a smelled a burst of lavender, verveine, and blood orange as well as some scents I didn’t even know the name of and we bought wonderful soaps there.

We found this very interesting spice man who showed us a mixture of amazing spices and smells. He gave me a little satchel filled exotic spices. We inhaled vaporized mint and felt the stinging in our thoughts. He burned frankenscene and mirth rocks for us to smell, and amazing rose and orange blossom oil. We will have to find him again, because sadly we were out of money.

Then we made our way to the main square, which was filled with snake charmers and monkey handlers. We racked our brains to remember which was the orange juice seller that Ginger and her family had gone too on their vacation. But we could not remember and finally settled for number 42, the nicest looking man. His sweet cold refreshing, fresh squeezed orange juice was amazing and in the end it turns out that 42 was the right one.

Then we went back to the Riad and had a wonderful homemade dinner on the roof top terrace with the birds serenading us. At dinner Frances, Christine’s husband, showed me some super cool Tricks, especially the one with 3 glasses, 3 knifes, and a bottle of water.

Christine had to return the Riad we were on our own in the souk. We made our way down to our room and fell asleep with birds singing their sweet songs. Good night Morocco, good night Marrakech.

I swam at the Tahiti Beach Club, where Mommy Nathalie used to swim as a child. There are pools and the ocean to choose from. I met a nice girl, named Jasimina, in the pool. We had a great time together diving, doing hand stands and trying to do cartwheels underwater.

Then Momma Nathalie, Mommy Laurie and I, took a petite taxi to my great grandmother, Mami Lidi’s, apartment. Blvd. 11 Janvier. And visited the courtyard where Momma Nathalie used to feed the kitties, fresh fish snacks.

Next stop, we went to the Parc de la Ligue Arabe, where Momma Nathalie would play and eat barbe a papa, and pumpkin seeds as a kid.

Then off to dinner at the Jewish Country club, where I had a giant plate spaghetti.

The kind manager, drove us back to our hotel after dinner and I finally went to bed. What a big day.

Jacques pick us up at our hotel and took us to Restaurant du Port. I had a delicious salad with french fries while everyone else enjoyed giant piles, of the freshest stinky fish. For desert we had the sweetest watermelon, I ate a lot of it maybe 6 pieces. Jacque and Armand kept calling Pappi Max in Los Angeles, California. It was 3am for Pappi Max! They would give him just enough time to fall back to sleep, then call him again. They were hysterical, and kept laughing like little boys. I felt a little bad for Pappi Max but it was so funny and i might have encouraged them a little bit. Afterwards Jacques drove us to the luxurious mall and we said good bye. Then my moms took me shopping for a bathing suit, because I didn’t want to swim in the ocean without one!

We woke up in Casablanca, and had sweet mint tea and Moroccan crepes. We got confused with narrow alleys, twisty lanes. There were a lot of low door ways.Those are the home of rich people!
The door ways are low so that the people coming in have to bow down. I met some nice10 year old
girls and boys who were on their lunch break from school. We saw lots of cute stray kitties, cats dogs and puppies. We even found a bakery with our noses, but it is not the kind of bakery where you can buy bread. It’s a bakery where local moms and grandmothers make their own dough, shape it the way each family likes it, and brings here to have it baked.

We finally did it!!!!!
We packed lightly.
See you in 3 weeks.

Hello all! Twas the night before Morocco and everyone is stirring not shaking.

I want to invite you to come along with me on my travel adventures. I am going to do my best to post a little something everyday of my vacation. This year we are starting off with a wild camel ride through Morocco, my mother Nathalie’s homeland. I hope you check back on our stories!