Day two's adventure

hey guys! how

is

everyone? I can speak on behalf of all 3 of us that we have overcome jet lag thanks to a goodnight's rest. Im still confused with dates and times, however.

We woke up to no electricity in the household (which is a common situation according to Alex) so Debbie has entrusted us with her car to road trip it into town to get some petrol for the generator. Since there's no power, the local petrol station can't pump fuel lol. Alex played the role of tour guide, driving us into town and stopping off to look at the local sites. Driving in Zim is quite an experience; don't need to wear seat belts if your in the back, traffic lights rarely work, massive potholes on the roads, venders trying to sell stuff at almost every traffic light, passengers riding in the back of utes etc.

The city centre to my amazement is buzzing with life, many cars and people fill the streets. We stopped off at a local bakery to grab some morning tea, at an unbelievably cheap price. A pie and a massive donut for under $2USD. We then walked around and check out the souvenir shops and local street vendors, we were pretty popular, maybe because we stand out as tourists (well i definitely do).

Petrol is still the same price over here as i found out as we pulled into the petrol station. While he was filling up our jerry can, the sales attendant knew a lot about Queensland and Australia, like 'gday mate' and kangaroos, which i thought was really cool.

Feeling pretty exhausted we left the city and drove around the suburbs, just checking out the views and listening to Zimbabwean radio. I noticed there's a lot of massive houses just standing there, incomplete, almost like a ghost estate. There's just not enough money to finish them, so they are just abandoned and left for squatters i guess.

We'll, we've returned home, to an electrified house and its only 1pm local time. I swear, it feels like 6pm. maybe we haven't gotten over jet lag yet.

Stay tuned for Alex's blog tomorrow

Jonno