Back to Malawi

7.29.13

                The day after rafting, we were on our long journey back to Malawi. We got up early to catch the 6:00am bus to Lusaka so we could have some time to check out Lusaka before we went back to Lilongwe. I think I’m getting used to these long bus rides because they seemed a lot easier on the way back to Malawi than they did on the way to Livingstone. In Lusaka, we killed our extra time at the mall.

We had pizza at Debonaire’s because we’ve seen it around a few times and we thought it might be good. We got the full house which was four pizzas. Two of them had mayonnaise on them so that was weird. I’m not sure what I think about that place. Maybe the subs were better.

Then we saw Wolverine in 3D at the theater. It was good but the glasses were too big for my face and kept falling off my nose so I had to hold them on. I thought I was going to fall asleep but I didn’t. I guess I wasn’t as tired as I thought.

After the movie, we went to Steers for some chicken burgers and fries. The burgers were also covered in mayonnaise but the fries were good. Then we got a taxi and went back to the hostel and called it a night.

The next morning we had to get to the bus station at 4:30am to board. Emily had a taxi arranged but he was late or not coming at all so we had to get another one really fast. We made it on time but we didn’t get the best seats. It was ok though because I think we were all just used to sitting on buses forever. The last couple of days haven’t been very eventful. It’s good to be back in Malawi.

Since we’ve been packing in the dark early in the morning for the last few days, I have left a pair of pants and my filtered water bottle. We also left the tent we bought in Livingstone so we were not the best at remembering all of our stuff. There are worse things we could have done so it’s ok.