A little Break From the Community Living

When February turned to end my mom and Jouni came to visit. Bread, candy, octocompass, and octonauts dvds and of course some mummu-time for the little boys. A slice of home.
It also gave us a good excuse to take a boat to Zansibar. A chance for us also to be just us not a full fledged african community. It was nice to go and relax, look at the amazing ocean, meet old friends etc. A nice little getaway/long weekend. If someone does not want to travel to Tanzania ever, you should maybe skip the post and the pics, it is heavenly <3 span="">


A little flashback. In  2007 T and I traveled to TZ for the first time. No plans made were made a head of time and while we though that we will have sooo much time (spending 5 weeks in the country) we soon realized that the time is running out quickly and we were supposed to go to zanzibar. Googling hotels while using the world's slowest internet connection and we found very little vacancies - well if you are not willing to pay 250$/night. We stumbled upon a place called Mnarani *lighthouse. Not knowing anything about the island we booked a room. I could have been a disaster, but we were lucky enough to find our little peace of heaven. We had a wonderful time and even struck a small friendship with the owner. Over the years he visited us in Finland, we visited his hotel, the whole family was there after our finnish wedding. For some reason though we haven't been in touch for a while but decided to go visit him. It was a strange feeling to drive up to the hotel, now almost seven years later with our little boys. The place is as beautiful as ever - anyone needing a break I highly recommend it.

The kids loved swimming in the ocean and in the pool. They were eagerly experimenting different sea food. Even octopus (for the record, I think J ate it just because it is called octo-something, Octonauts are still the worlds best thing in his mind)! Our little M is trouble though. The guy does not even know what fear is. Can and just jump into the pool and sink, us rushing over and quickly grabbing him up - while we panic the guy just laughs... I hope he learns to swim very soon. J on the other hand is true to his nature and very very very careful. He learned to swim a little.

 

I'm sure some people think this is our life 24/7. It is not. Our life here is not much different from our life in finland. We still have to routines and eat healthy food, keep bedtimes etc. But its nice to be able to sit on a boat for 1,5 hours and be in paradise.

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