Saturday Fun

Today was one of those really good days. Jenny and I have decided that we will be walking every Saturday to the Lover's Park (Parque de Namorados). It overlooks the bay with a wonderful outdoor cafe, good coffee and a sandy play area complete with one of those play structures you would see in a McDonald's in the US. We always enjoy the walk. Central Maputo has wide sidewalks, practically 12 feet wide, that makes walking with a stroller easy and quite safe if Nadia wants to run.

Lover's Park (Parque de Namorados)

We often pass by to say "hi!" to a wooden giraffe and lion that is in the new Parque de Continuadores. This park has been renovated for craft sellers to sell there wares to tourists and international workers staying in the expensive hotels in the area. To attract people they also have several restaurants serving coffee and local cuisine, an art area where for a fee children can do artwork all morning, several stages for music and theatre and many other attractions.

We had our walk, our coffee and Nadia played in the sand with another young girl, Chloe. Her mother works for USAID and Jenny and her had a very nice conversation for a while. She is from New York and her husband from France. We meet some really interesting people.

We spent the afternoon relaxing. I made monkey bread for breakfast tomorrow on request from Jenny for mother's day (Pat take note). Nadia had her nap. In the evening we went for a drive down 'the Marginal', the long palm tree lined beach road along the edge of Maputo and along the bay. We got hot dogs near the beach and parked overlooking the water as the sun went down. We almost bought coconuts with little straws to drink the water but decided we would do that another time. Sounds like paradise doesn't it. We than drove into dusk along the bay, into down town, enjoying the sites of the lights on the bay and the new construction that will one day make the whole beach and bay area an incredible walking and shopping area. We headed past the tall buildings and into downtown and home.

Along "The Marginal"

This was a good day.