On the 7th Day

After a very busy week at work, I was glad to reach Saturday and have a
day of rest. J and I slept in and then ordered breakfast to the room
while we watched the movie "Men In Black". After a while, the maid came
to make up the room so we went out for a while to return a DVD we'd
rented (500 Days of Summer) and stroll around the neighborhood. We found
a coffee shop called "Karibou Coffee" which looked pretty nice--even
though I'm pretty sure they don't have any caribou in Ethiopia--but we'd
just had breakfast so we walked on by. A few minutes later a wedding
procession passed by; in Ethiopia you'll often see a string of white
sedans driving down the road honking their horns with a camera man on
the back of a pickup truck at the head of the line taping the whole
thing. They were rolling along pretty slowly and came to a stop nearby.
Some of the members of the wedding party changed cars and then they
headed off again. At that, we headed back to our hotel and found that
the maid was finished, so we plopped ourselves back on the sofa.
We did manage to be somewhat productive though; J has been studying
English vocabulary for her TOEIC test in November and I've been making
progress on my Español for my upcoming return to S. America. Pretty
funny considering there are only other foreigners in this hotel--Italian
guy across the hall, an Arab couple at the other end of the floor, and
an Indian guy in the middle room-- so the staff say we are the Japanese
people, even though neither of us is Japanese. It's a regular tower of
Babel here!