[A man in a flight suit and leather jacket enters the Mess. His uniform, normally pressed with a decent, if not razor-sharp crease, is rumpled as if slept in and is covered with red dust. There are bags under his eyes but he is smiling nonetheless. As he enters the kitchen, he is fumbling inside one of the cargo pockets of his flightsuit...]
Hey Murphy! Someplace here I've got some fresh mint for you. It's for making mint tea, the Moroccan national drink. It'll probably take the place of raspberry tea as my drink for quite a while. Ah! Here it is....and the recipe on how to make it as well. Oh, and yes, that's the proper amount of sugar. It's VERY sweet.
[He walks out into the common area and announces to all...]
I'm back!
Morocco is a wonderful country with wonderful people and we didn't have enough time to explore everything we wanted to, but it's great to be back home.
X and k, your cards were sent from Marrakech on Tuesday so you should be getting them sometime next year, or maybe the day after that.
And Xanthos, one of our guides offered me 20 camels for Manx, but I had to decline for two reasons:
1) She's worth at least that much on a bad day, and bad days are few and far between, and
2) I have no idea how I would get 20 camels into the overhead storage bin of a 747.
Well, jet lag is hitting me pretty now. I'll catch up with the goings on tomorrow.
G'Night!