Dinner was really nice except for a drunk guy behind us who was unnecessarily rude to the staff. There's a "thing" here in Africa... excuse my generalization but this happens in Ghana too so I'm going to extend my assumption to an entire continent... how American of me. A patron who wants the attention of a server makes this really loud sound pushing air through their teeth in what comes out as a "tsist" sound. I now cringe whenever I hear it. However, this gentlemen decided to do it pretty much every time a server was within 10 yards of him. It was clear that he thought he was more important than everyone else dining that evening. Luckily, he eventually got up from his wimpy cocktail, almost fell over and then proceeded to drive his loudly painted vehicle home. Sigh.
On Saturday, we lounged around after breakfast and eventually headed over to the craft market to finally purchase the obligatory Christmas tree ornament. We did a full walk of the place and settled on a little African house that says Mozambique. The seller offered to carve a name on it for us so we requested the year.
After completing our purchase, we went over to Mundos sports bar to have some lunch and watch the Manchester City match. Headed back to the hotel for a bit with the intention of trying a new place for dinner that night. We've heard about how good (and expensive) this Portuguese place called Taverna is. It's one of few places we haven't yet tried here and figured our last Saturday night would be as good a time as any. Well, joke's on us because they aren't open on Saturday. Yes, you read that correctly. A nice restaurant that is not open on Saturday. We agreed that was utterly ridiculous and defaulted to our favorite wine and tapas bar. Had some good conversation, thanked the manager for a consistently good restaurant experience (since we don't know if we'll ever be back) and headed back to go to sleep.
Sunday was the epitome of laziness. We watched a bunch of movies and ate dinner at the hotel while watching some of the NCAA basketball tournament via Slingbox. So now we are in the home stretch in Maputo. We expected a pretty calm week leading up to our departure on Saturday... until I came upstairs yesterday to find our bathroom flooded under half an inch of water. Never a dull moment in this place haha. Dan came home to check it out and have lunch with me as we expected to have to change to the fourth room of this trip. However, to our shock, they actually were fixing it when we returned from lunch. Amazing! Dan made a great point that we think the hotel is actually full so there was nowhere to move us. As a result, they actually had to do something about this issue.
Fair warning that our flight lands pretty late on Saturday night in Ghana. I suspect we will sleep pretty well in our own home, so I apologize if my Sunday blog post is a bit late. Consider yourselves warned :)
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