I am seeing red today! I set my alarm wrong. Day light savings time kicked in and I forgot to take that into account, so I was to the bus at 5:45am instead of 6:45am. I went back to bed. An hour later, I went out to no bus, once again. I checked my ticket. It said 7:00am Monday. The tickets were distributed a while ago, so I checked the updated times list. My trip to Marrakesh, $70, was yesterday. They never told us that the trip switched days on us, so I never thought about it, and I ended up paying for two trips yesterday, and going on the less exciting, and less expensive one, leaving my more fun and more expensive trip, unused. Tomorrow, when the travel office opens, I will be having a refund chat with them. It stinks though because Marrakesh was the city I was most excited to see, and I was told that it is the one place you have to go above all else when you are in Morocco. Lame.
I went back to bed though, which was nice, and I woke up at 1pm, totally forgetting about all of my anger from this morning. We went to the grocery store, where I stocked up on Coke for the return trip home, also very stress relieving. It was a bit of a downer, because Jack and I walked around for an hour in the heat trying to find the place, because we were told that it was walking distance. Moroccans speak either French or Arabic, not English. I ended up finding someone that spoke Spanish and they told us where to go, which I sort of understood. The many talents one can acquire when working 2 years in housekeeping, able to listen to but not speak Spanish.
After the grocery store, Jack and I went to a Souk, or a bazaar, a place to buy things for cheap where you bargain. It was a nice time. We found all sorts of fun little items. It was not that touristy either, because Casablanca is more of the business center, it was a lot of locals, all of the tourists are in Marrakesh I was told. Haha.
After that, we got some dinner at a Pizza Hut. I know we sold out. It was a day where I was hoping for some comfort food. Then, back to the ship, where we did homework. Tomorrow is our last day in Morocco. We do not have that many plans because we cannot risk being late to the ship. If we are late here, or anything goes wrong here, we cannot catch back up with the ship until the US, which means we failed all of our classes and the trip was for nothing, so we will be careful to stay near the ship tomorrow, no huge adventures.
