Last night in Tanzania

Well, this is it.  Tonight is the last night I will spend in Tanzania.  What am I going to do?  Probably just spend it packing and hanging out with Barkers listening to NPR on the satellite radio.  

Last night was cool, however.  I took Paul, Nora and Dorcas out to dinner at Addis in Dar, which is the Ethiopian restaurant near our house.  Ethiopian food is so good.  We had chicken, lamb, red snapper, lentils, chickpeas, and potatoes with tons of injera (it's kind of like a giant sourdough crepe that you use to pick up your food) and lots of spicy sauce.  The food comes on a giant plate and everyone eats by tearing off pieces of injera and scooping up whatever they want with it.  Occaisionally the plate is rotated so you can taste some of the hard-to-reach stuff on the other side.  Who's up for finding an Ethiopian restaurant in Boston with me??

I'm doing a fine balancing act with my luggage.  I have to keep track of weight (each piece can only weigh 23 kilos!) and make sure that all the breakable stuff is properly wrapped.  I'm sticking most of my clothes and all the fabric I bought into my spare duffle bag and all the wooden carvings into my hard suitcase.  Now I just have to go around the house accounting for all the things I might have left lying around that were subsiquently cleaned up by Maria, the housekeeper.  She's rather brutally efficient when it comes to cleaning.  I hope I can find everything.