Marrakech!

We keep finding ourselves delightfully back in Marrakech, and if our hopes come true that will only continue to increase!

Dried flower blossoms!  I thought it was candy popcorn!

I have begun to take notice of the baskets as well!  I hope there is a basket or two or ten in my future!  Morocco is not only rugs!  Speaking of which, Mo acted on behalf of friends in Utah and brought back a grossly over-priced rug AND power-of-attorney to act on his friends' behalf if law needed to be involved in the  refund!  They apparently paid several thousand durhams.  We'd better take Mo with us too if we go rug shopping.

We are even starting to recognize some landmarks in the souk, but we actually did get a bit turned around.  (psst...Don't tell Jerry I told you.  It bruised his ego a bit.)

An uber magnificent tiled wall on our walk to the medina

We had the delightful pleasure of making the acquaintance of these three women on our recent trip  to see Mo while he was here.  These women are the leadership team of an All girls Rotary International club!  They have ALL done multiple hajjes in Mecca!

We hit it off!!  They hope to involve LDS Charities in some remote village preschool projects!  We hope so too!!!!!

Nora (in the middle) invited us to her restaurant at night.  I fell in love with this table! That carrot/orange salad at the twelve o'clock was the most glorious thing!  They said it had rosewater in it...ahhh....At one o'clock is some stuffed zucchinis.  Six is a tomato spread, and some eggplant is the brown stuff.  We dipped our bread in all of it. Potatoes and green peppers were pretty ordinary.  We were also served lamb tajine!  mmmmm..It was getting pretty dark at this point.  

And then the belly dancer came out.  Fortunately, between the lack of light and her... ahem... movement, I don't have to apologize for suggestive pictures.  She DID pull Jerry and me out of our seats to dance, but we were pitiful, and she let us sit back down.