Marrakech

Saturday a group of 6 of us took the train to Marrakech.  The train ride was about three hours and 20 minutes getting us there at around 2:00 pm.  It was a little hot but not too bad, most of us slept at least part of the time.  When we got there we found a little café to eat some lunch.  We then walked into the Medina which is the old city and is full of twisting little streets.  In the center in the most knotted up streets is where the big market is.  I bargained for an outfit for myself, it is blue and it is one of the semi-traditional long tunic/dresses that most women here wear and pants that you are suppose to wear with it but I think that I could wear them separately.  I also got a pair of blue handmade leather shoes for myself.  It was a good day.  We took a 21:00 train back to Casablanca getting there a little after 1 in the morning because of a delay, and then getting to the ship (we have to walk about a mile and a half from the port entrance to where the Explorer is docked) at about 1:30.  There is a shuttle bus to take us to and from our peer to the port entrance but it stops running at 9:00 pm.  We were very tired but also very dirty and sticky because it is so dusty here you end up with this gritty sticky coating on exposed skin, so we took quick showers and went to bed.