Stilt village and Hotel Du Lac

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This morning we packed lunch snacks and our bathing suits and headed out with a group to go to the stilt village. We walked to the Hotel Du Lac (which is across the bridge) and then went into a boat and headed to the village, on the way we saw fishers who gave us a demonstration pig markets and some other things. The guide said that about 30,000 people lived in the village and it was 28 kms away! so it took a while to get there, it started out where we could see both sides of the city then the river widened out so quickly that it looked like we were in the ocean! When we got to the village we had to go through these plant things that the buy and put in the river or lake or what ever it is, and it grows and turns into a net to catch fish. We went into three shops and bought some things throughout the tour. Everyone had a canoe type thing that looked like half a tree hollowed out. We saw a school a graveyard and lots of different looking houses. It was really cool to see that and it would be cool to live there for a while, but I would get tired of it quickly! We boated back to the hotel where we swam the rest of the afternoon. There was a platform diving board with two levels made out of cement. We saw alot of the Mercy Ships staff there this afternoon also! Brett probably went off that diving board at least 60 times and I am not kidding, the whole time we were there thats what he was doing, going up and off and up and off and up and off! There were these guys from Lebanon who were trying to imitate what he was doing and they were so funny to watch, they would tell him to teach them how to do these things! They were funny and they were asking Brett and Adam if the smoked or wanted to try it with these really weird smoking things! they said no thanks (thank goodness!) and then we walked back to the ship for hamburgers and fries. Tonight Mom and Dad might go to a concert and we will stay here and watch the Incredibles which is the movie they are playing tonight. We only have one more day here in Africa and somehow the time has gone so fast! We are doing laundry tonight and we will probably be pack tomorrow.
Carly