Today I think I am just going to list some of the fun things we did here.
Magicland:
A basic Senegalese theme park. It's small, but really fun. We went into a haunted house, which wasn't really scary, except for the end when something brushed your shoulder. Another ride is what I call an illegal American ride because it takes you in the air and spins you around and around with no seatbelts! They only give you some bars to hold onto. There were some go carts, which were fun, but kind of scary. It was just like a round race track, and you could drive around at 30 kph. But my favorite ride wasn't really a ride at all. There were 4 trampolines with harnesses. You put on the bungees and you could do flips, back and front. They have that at home, but we were at this place at night, so there weren't any lines. Yippee!!! I did a double backflip! After we got ice cream, we headed out. They had some basic theme park rides there too, bumper cars and kiddie merry go rounds. The whole place had plastic palm trees too.
Zoo:
It was really fun there. I saw some cool animals that I hadn't seen before. Porcupines, male lions, hyenas, and a lot of others. One of the gazelles was head-butting a tree. My dad said he was thinking: "This pen ain't big enough for the two of us!" The lions were in enclosed spaces, smaller than what the gazelles had. We saw some leopard cubs, a camel, and a huge turtle. There were also some tiny little kittens, like a week old, behind the tire of a truck. They were really cute. We went for some freeze pops, and it started raining for a long time, very heavily. When it kind of stopped, we went, walking through the drizzling rain, to the gate. On the way back, we had to drive through some flooded streets.
The Mosoleum (sp?):
Big building by the beach. The sheikh's grandfather is buried there. Outside it is nice, but inside is nicer. By the grave there is lots of dry sand. No floor. It feels so good underneath my feet. Inside it is quiet and peaceful. It's really impossible to describe.