A Week with with Nat and David

After getting married, Ali and I headed to Meknes to meet with Nat and David and spend a week touring around with them. The first couple days were a repeat of the begining of the tour d'Ali, we saw the sights in Meknes, Fes, Voulibilis and Moulay Idriss. Nat and David had rented a car, which meant that we had time for some time for a couple side trips to places like Sidi Harazem, where the bottled water comes from and some little town, where after a bit of confusion we found the caves that are lived in by old people that were described in the guide. We set off in the car on the third day to check out some of the things between Meknes and Beni Mellal...our first stop was the Cedre Gourard and the BArnaby Apes near Azrou. then we stopped at this amazing place with a river and a waterfall for lunch, the setting was great but it was not the greatest Tagnie that we had eaten. We hung out in Beni Mellal that evening and then headed to the Cascade d'Ouzoud the next day. It is an amazing waterfall...when we were there it had been rainign so hard that instead of being its nromal blue watery colour, tghe water was a light brown, more like a mudfall. We had to be very careful when heading down cause the ground was really slippery, but it was cool still. That night we went to Marrakech where we stayed in the apartment of someone who we had met in Figuig. The next evening we went to visit Alis family in Settat, where Mina had prepared my favourite dish, rafissa. It was enormous, adn she had place three entire chickens on top! CRAZY amount of rafissa, but MMM MMM GOOD! We got up early on Saturday morning to see the Hassan 2 Mosque in Casablanca before Nat and DAvid had to head to the airport. After they left, ALi and I tried to get a Taxi tot he train station to return to Oujda, but we found out the hard way that taxis only pick up tourisits at the Mosque. They can make more money that way. We neded up walking to the train station, but we still got to Oujda as planned, about 12 hrs later.

THANKS NATHALIE AND DAVID IT WAS FUN!