Marrakech

hi mom and dad. greetings from marrakech. made it here on the train today about 2:30ish...have opted to stay here for the night and try to make a day trip to the mountans tomorrow. we hear it is only an hour and a half to Imlil from here. Spen t the afternoon wondering the streets and finally made it into medina (the old town° with small qlley way, venders of all sorts of spices and the square where the three of us remember being before...the snake charmers and trained monkies still draw the crowds. ran into some SASers who pointed us in the direction of a Riad(Les Yeux Bleus); Riad is a bed and breakfast like place; probably a little on the high end for us but we opted for it since it was already turning to night and we were ready to have bags off our backs. the keyboard here makes it challenging to write so this letter is going to suffice as a brief blog post as well. Hope Casablanca was lovely and where ever you end up tomorroz night is a good time. We may even be back at the ship tomorrow night so as to avoid the student rush on the train and in the ship lines on thursday. let us know where you are off to. Lots of love. ps wish i knew french o arabic...i feel quite helpless; more later.