This morning Paul took Abigail and Bradley off for a walk around the golf course and onto the beach hoping to see Adam to accept his offer of Tabasky. I stayed at home and washed some clothes, then managed to get a bit of sun whilst reading in the compound.
This afternoon we have been invited to a bring your own food barbeque at Sokey and Greg’s to discuss the office xmas party. We left early as we wanted to have a look around Serekunda Market for blankets. Parking the car in our usual spot we headed into the main market area, we noticed a stall selling quilt covers so asked for blankets. They didn’t sell them but a young lad ended up taking us past various stalls to one which sold blankets on asking the price we were told 400 dalasi after a lot of bartering I managed to get three blankets for 200 dalasi each half what they were asking. We then asked about groundnut paste and we were taken to another stall which sold it in small fist size food bags. We made for the exit passing chickens in small cages awaiting their fate. Paul noticed some string vests in the Gambian flag colours which he likes so we agreed a price then we were ushered to another stall to be shown more vests which they were hoping to also sell to us. Finally spent up we made our way to the car and started driving away from the market the road went on for ages. The road didn’t end up where Paul thought so we had to turn back on ourselves down another long road. We made it to the main Serrekunda road only to have one side of the carriage way blocked off as is the norm when the president is travelling. So we then had to sit behind Gelleh’s and Taxis at a snails pace waiting for them to drop and pick up passengers before we finally saw the side street we needed for Greg and Sokey’s very frustrating.
We arrived at Sokey’s, Bradley changed into his trunks as they had the paddling pool out so he spent the next two hours splashing about. With the barbeque ready for the meat Paul set about putting on our burgers and sausages as Abigail and Bradley were getting hungry, then others took over cooking their own meat. During this time the girls got together to discuss the xmas party writing down a list of volunteer’s, what food to cook and working out costings. We are looking at hosting it around the 12th December so those volunteer’s who are going home for xmas will be able to attend. With everything sorted as who would be making what we left for home dropping off Emma and Emily on route.
This afternoon we have been invited to a bring your own food barbeque at Sokey and Greg’s to discuss the office xmas party. We left early as we wanted to have a look around Serekunda Market for blankets. Parking the car in our usual spot we headed into the main market area, we noticed a stall selling quilt covers so asked for blankets. They didn’t sell them but a young lad ended up taking us past various stalls to one which sold blankets on asking the price we were told 400 dalasi after a lot of bartering I managed to get three blankets for 200 dalasi each half what they were asking. We then asked about groundnut paste and we were taken to another stall which sold it in small fist size food bags. We made for the exit passing chickens in small cages awaiting their fate. Paul noticed some string vests in the Gambian flag colours which he likes so we agreed a price then we were ushered to another stall to be shown more vests which they were hoping to also sell to us. Finally spent up we made our way to the car and started driving away from the market the road went on for ages. The road didn’t end up where Paul thought so we had to turn back on ourselves down another long road. We made it to the main Serrekunda road only to have one side of the carriage way blocked off as is the norm when the president is travelling. So we then had to sit behind Gelleh’s and Taxis at a snails pace waiting for them to drop and pick up passengers before we finally saw the side street we needed for Greg and Sokey’s very frustrating.
We arrived at Sokey’s, Bradley changed into his trunks as they had the paddling pool out so he spent the next two hours splashing about. With the barbeque ready for the meat Paul set about putting on our burgers and sausages as Abigail and Bradley were getting hungry, then others took over cooking their own meat. During this time the girls got together to discuss the xmas party writing down a list of volunteer’s, what food to cook and working out costings. We are looking at hosting it around the 12th December so those volunteer’s who are going home for xmas will be able to attend. With everything sorted as who would be making what we left for home dropping off Emma and Emily on route.
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