Adah at Friday playdates!

Every Friday Adah and I go to O' Palm on the Corniche with a few other mom's and their kiddo's (The Corniche is the road that follows the beach). 
The structure is new in the last month or so.

 "What should I do first?"

The merry-go-round is her favorite!!

 Adah and her buddy Iris. 

Our little monkey!  We should have stayed in Bozeman and put her in rock climbing classes.
Next week we go to Spain for Christmas, stay tuned for many pictures!!

Spain!!

I am so bad at this blogging stuff.....

Our first real trip!  Aahhh!!!   Shawn had this past week off for a Moroccan holiday known as the Eid.  It is the sacrificing of the sheep (or cow).  Apparently there is so much blood, the streets are red....  so we weren't so excited to see sheep killed we headed to Spain with our friends Dan and Steph and their four kids.  (Remember our friends from Bozeman that now live in Fes)

Ceuta is a pennisula on the northern part of Morocco that is "owned" by Spain, but still in Africa.  It is awesome.  Pork, cheap beer and wine, no trash!  Having a little Culture Shock, it was good to get away for a while.  We are planning on going back real soon...

We spent three days in Spain eating, drinking, and shopping.  This was a small pub Shawn and Dan found while looking for Vespa shops...  they didn't get to any shops!  Each table had it's own tap that was frozen, it was so cool.

 A little creepy...   not the KKK!

Daddy and Adah playing by a fountain.  Everywhere in Spain there are small little areas with fountains and benches.  It is so safe and clean, except for the smoking everywhere.   I loved it here!!!   (I told Shawn to look into teaching in Europe next) 

Our little world traveler.  She is such a trooper!!!

Next we headed home via Chefchauen.  This is a little mountain town in the Rif Mountains.

 Shawn, Adah and I spent the night here and did some shopping.  Wool was everywhere...
We got two blankets for our bed.  Shawn got a half jilaba (jilaba is something the men wear here but it is usually long)  I got some wool slippers and Adah got a cute little hat that she won't keep on. 

 Blue doors are everywhere.  I don't remember the whole story but it has something to do with the Jewish settlers letting others know they were here. 

That was our trip.  Christmas is a few weeks away and we are not sure what we are doing yet.  I would like to go to Europe again, to a Christian country.  I will do my best to keep up on this better....

Another day at the Beach!!

 This past Saturday, which was October 8th we went to Sunny Beach again with our friends the Douglass'.  It was a beautiful day.  I can't believe we are still going to the beach and wearing swimsuits in October! 
We moved into a new place at the beginning of October.  It is closer to people we know and I  can just walk out my door and be at the beach in 2 minutes.  Adah is loving our new place, more room for her to play.

 Sunny Beach is a private beach that you can have lunch or dinner at.  They have picnic tables and chairs to lay out on.  You have to pay for the chairs so we used a table and just had an awesome lunch!  Grilled calamari with grilled veggies and a baked potato, it was wonderful.

A day at Sunny Beach!!!!

We showed up at the beach and Adah and her new friend Iris had the same suit on.  Even in Morocco you've got to love Target!  (bought in the states)

 Sunny Beach is a private beach that you can eat at and have beach chairs and the beach is clean with no trash!  This is worth the price having no trash on the beach.

Our trip to Fes

 Shawn, Adah and I went to Fes to visit our friends Dan and Stephanie from Bozeman.  It is a crazy story and it of course involves a VW van.....

Shawn sort of meet Dan a few years back in Bozeman because they both have/had VW vans.  When we decided to move to Morocco we had a mutual friend who said "I have some friends who moved to Morocco last year, I will give you there contact info".  Well it was Dan and Stephanie, small world! 


The train ride from Casablanca to Fes was about 4 hours, Adah got in a nap on the way there.  We spent 2 1/2 days in Fes and had a great time!

On Saturday we went to the medina and looked around, saw the leather tannery and had some great tajine!

 These are pictures of the tannery.  No one was working because they had time off after Ramadan.  It has been in existence since like the 1200's.  It is amazing to see something so old. 

 The medina is a huge old city that has walls around it and people live there and work.  It has everything you can imagine.  The halls are close and winding, we thought we were lost a few times.  We had a great time with the Barnett's and look forward to spending much more time with them in the next few years!

Just another weekend!

We had a pretty uneventful weekend. Saturday we spent the day at the beach. The waves at Jack Beach were too high to actually go in the water, but the water is pretty cold anyways.
The is the new short cut we found on the way to the beach. This mosque was getting painted so Shawn took a photo op here.
This is a local hanut (a small shack with lots of sugar). Shawn's friend Ryan sent us a picture of one in the Dominican Republic and so Shawn took this to show they are similar here too! Something about jacking kids up on pop and candy in different countries is ok......

That's all for now. We are going to visit some friends who live in Fes this weekend so I will post some new pics of that adventure next week.....

Starting our life here in Casa!!

Our First adventure out in Casa!

We arrived in Casablanca on Thursday August 4th (I think that was the date, it's all a blur!). That Saturaday our new friend Carol brought us to one the markets in downtown Casa. It was a little overwhelming at first but everything was so awesome it was hard not to buy everything

These baskets are awesome! I want one or two for every room.....


These are the best olives ever. The Co-Op in Bozeman has nothing on these open bin olives! And they are so cheap, Adah loves then too, double bonus!

We have had quite a couple of weeks. I can't believe it is going to be three weeks tomorrow! We had two weeks of orientation at the school. That was busy and boring all at the same time. It was good though they really helped us with orientating us with Casa and getting around. (Thus it is called orientation!)

The street's of Casa! You are taking your own life in danger if you attempt to drive on the roads here.

It is Ramadan this month (they fast from 4am till 7:30pm) so we have not had the pleasure of eating out since being here. (Everything is closed as to not tempt the tempted) It is really starting to irritate me, I have heard of all the great food here and have not been able to partake at all.
All and all everything is going good. We are planning on going to Fes next week to visit some of our friends from Bozeman. Shawn and Dan will talk VW vans the whole time and I will get to know his wife and four kids! It should be a good time.
Miss everyone.