The Slipway

Slipway is around the corner from our house and it's rapidly becoming one of our favorite places to hang out. Here's the link - http://www.slipway.net/index.php. There's food, a bookstore, and a fantastic junk store made out of lots of individual booths. Now by junk, I mean tacky - yet, surprisingly cool - souvenirs. And if you come visit, I promise to take you there for your required ration of tacky souvenirs. We are forming our own collection, too. Don't you worry.

Back to the task at hand. Yesterday, we made two trips to Slipway looking for various items. The bookstore was the main point of venture where I found "the book." The one I have been hunting for since we found out we would be living on the Indian Ocean. And I'm very happy to have confirmed it's existence.

Now, I don't have to wonder what is out there. I know! Daily nerd point - earned. We were also looking for country maps for our travels. However, the maps didn't have coordinates and other information Liam wanted. We picked up a book about Dar es Salaam for entertaining ourselves and others while we are here.

After we ran a couple of other errands, we returned to the booths looking for a few pieces of furniture. Well, we came home with other things. Two paintings.













The giraffe was just a fun purchase to eliminate some white wall space. The blue Masi painting I fell in love with a couple of weeks ago. I was watching the artist paint when my eyes fell on this one drying in the sun. We went back last week looking for it and couldn't find it because there are so many paintings. Last night, it became ours. For a whopping, 50,000 Tz shillings for both (about $31) Now, I just need a hammer and a nail for it to take it's place on the wall!

After our painting excitement, we went to dinner on the Terrace. There was a nice breeze on a warm, winter evening. Liam ordered a fillet mignon (which actually looked more like pot roast -he did say it was tasty). I ordered one grilled lobster, but for some reason my plate showed up with TWO!!! Woo hoo! I was in heaven. Those little boogers were quite tasty.

Full and happy, we wandered home and spent a few hours talking to our guard about books. If you have any extra books laying around, pack them in a flat rate box and send them our way. Books are VERY expensive here and the guards would really enjoy them.

It's a rough life in Tanzania.