Dress fittings & more

Tuesday 12th February
Jen and I went along to the dress maker this morning, with THE dress we brought over with us and to discuss the making of the other dress and of my outfit too. We ended up going into town to visit material shops and then back to her house to talk it though again
Jen and I managed to get slightly side tracked by ordering an outfit each for a wedding we are going to in Moshi on the 1st March (Saga & Ruth’ – he is Joey’s best man) What fun!
Some 3 hours later we left to walk into town to meet the guys for a late lunch. We still hadn’t gotten as far as measurements yet – that happens at our next visit, which is next Monday.
Lunch by the way was brill – a road side "café" called The Mwanza Institute, grilled tilapia and chips – eaten with fingers and very tasty! Cooked by the road too!
I was then allowed to go for a pedicure (lovely!) and various shopping was done for MH. We ended up having a drink at The Yacht Club (very grandly named) which is also the place where Jen & Joey play squash. Right on the lake. Ate later (having done some odd jobs around MH on our return, like putting up some curtains and stopping rain dripping noisily outside our bedroom window) at a new hotel some 20 mins walk from us. Lovely evening.

Thursday 14th February
Woke to no water (we have no hot water anyway!!!) so this was somewhat inconvenient – however undaunted – we breakfasted and then we headed off to walk into town. It took us just over an hour – so not bad – and then tried to catch up with emails at the internet café (Donald a bit upset as he thought the café word meant there would be drinks there – not so in Mwanza!)
Very frustrating!!! – we complain at home about the speed of broadband – well believe me that’s nothing. We paid for 30 minutes (40p) but hadn’t got through to Wanadoo/Orange before that time was up – so David H, "Quit complaining!!"
Also don’t think the photo’s I tried to put in my last entry worked – so apologies, will try again when I can – not this time.
Got back at 3ish and still no water – so we plan to meet up with Jen & Joey at the Yaght Club, they can play a game of squash (Donald threatening to play too!!!) we will then go back to theirs for a shower and change – before setting off for a Valentines Do at KK’s – the restaurant/bar I have talked about which is run by women who have had to leave their homes for various reasons.
Oh – went into a shop today to look for something, and the guy serving looked at me and said "you look familiar" – He recognised me as Jen’s mum!! It’s a shop that they use quite a bit, so that was funny (and nice!)
Tomorrow we are off – Jen’s birthday on Saturday and Joey has arranged a surprise for her – so watch this space!