Just what I needed?a day on the beach!

We woke up today in Mauritius!

Sara, Ashley and I hopped off right away and set out for the local market. We found it a little bit disappointing considering most of it was imported from India and other neighboring countries and also really expensive! There are no natives to Mauritius by the way, only immigrants and tourist. After a while at the markets, we decided to head to the beach. Our cab driver took us to this BEAUTIFUL tiny little beach where the water was luke warm. We stayed there for the majority of the day and ran into various SAS students throughout the day. At one point, my friends Lindsay and Hadley decided that they wanted to go tubing! So they did and I went on the boat to take pictures of them. It was pretty funny! Afterward, we walked to have some lunch at a Chinese restaurant near by. Then we explored a few of the shops near by and headed back to the harbor area. Thankfully, we got an AMAZING cab driver. He took us through the part of the island that most tourists don’t get to see. He took us by all sorts of Hindu temples, Muslim mosques and through beautiful fruit markets and little shops. He even stopped and let us book a hostel for Thailand at an internet café! He really was the greatest. As soon as we got back to the ship, Kristina, one of my friends who shaved her head, realized that she hadn’t picked up any earrings! (She is collecting earrings) So we made a mad dash for the nearest open shop (everything in Mauritius closes at 4 or 5) to find some earrings! We finally did and then hopped on a water taxi just in time to make it on the ship! It was a perfect, relaxing, beautiful day.

Until India!!!!!!