Yessss. We have finally finally finally made it to the capital, and oh what a capital. The arch was still there, as was the statue of President Jammeh in his glory military days holding a machine gun in one arm and a young child in the other. We bought paint for the Kembujeh nursery school which I think is basically all done with the pencil outlines. Alas and some of the other boys walked after us (I took some kids in the truck earlier the back way... my mom nearly had an aneurysm waiting for me at home, I think), and were loitering and picking cashews off the ground. Cashews are a big deal here, especially since the whole Senegal-Gambia border fiasco, the price of cashews has gone way up.
Anyway, back to Banjul. They put up all this decoration, something that looks like a wire Christmas tree (?). We're not really sure what it is but its MASSIVE, and there's a billboard that says Happy Birthday to the president with his face smackbang in the middle of it right next the faux-Christmas tree. They'd also put all these garlands in the real trees for his birthday.
Anyway, to the more important matters about this Banjul trip. I used to make fun of those people that would take pictures of the food they eat, but I think I understand on some deeper more meaningful level now. You know, sometimes you just want to remember the things you eat. Don't be a hater. Well, first of all we went to this new place called Crown instead of Ali Baba, ever since that incident 2 years ago when my friend Jenna's chawarma had like a worm in it. My dad has nobly decided to boycott the shop for all time. So we found this new place.
So we had chicken and lamb chawarmas yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm:
And please note the meat pies in the background.
For your personal benefit, dear reader, here is a close-up. HAHA
And ALSO fyi, we got our Senegalese visas today, so our trip next week is a go. YIPPEE
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I AM SO MAD THOSE LOOK SO GOOD.
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