LUSAKA! #1

Steph:

So instead of staying a week, as we originally planned, we ended up staying with Gigi and Yuyu for over a month. I know. It's crazy. This is something that we definitely did not plan, BUT IT WAS SO NICE!! After both of us getting sick in Livingstone we really enjoyed the down time and hanging out with this crazy, fun family. We've manage to do a lot of fun things as well as a whole lot of nothing.

Don't worry though, I won't go day by day and bore you guys to death :) We'll just do highlights, ya?

MOVIES :)

We had been super excited about this city for a while. Just because it was a city. Not that we don't love the villages and towns, but this place had a movie theatre! It was a little upsetting for me to admit how much I missed 1^st world stuff. I think I just really like movies. The fact that they cost close to nothing helped as well.

The Hobbit: Pretty fun. As fun as the other LOTR. The theatre smelled badly, but the movie rocked.

Django Unchained: We went to see this one with a bunch of cool people from the embassy. Ehh. The story was cool, but Q. Tarantino is a little over the top for me.

Les Miserables: Totally awesome. I didn't realize the whole movie was just singing. Pretty impressive. Anne Hathaway's rendition of "I had a Dream" was lovely. But that's just me.

Zero Dark Thirty: I guess there was a lot of contreversy about this film in the US. Especially between the political parties. Which meant that we pretty much had to watch it. I thought it was awesome. Very exciting and interesting.

There you go. Those are my reviews. The theatre we went to (with the exception of The Hobbit) was in a mall called Manda Hill. This is also where we went to grocery shop and run any other errands we came up with. It was a 15 minute walk from Gigi's house and a very pleasant one at that.

SALSA!

We met Jose through Yuyu and Gigi. He's one of the marines at the Embassy. We clicked right away after finding out that he is also from Arizona and speaks spanish. He was incredibly nice and we hung out a few times. One of these times he took us to a hotel in a very seedy part of town. It ended up being a salsa class that he goes to every once in a while. Oh man, it was so much fun. Completely random. There were a lot of people there. And a lot of people who knew what they were doing. These Zambians know how to salsa! Erik and I were taken aside by one of the instructors for a crash course :) We've decided that we'll need to take lessons when we get home. After our little class, we sat and watched everyone else shake their booty and chatted. It was a really good night.