SAKI

My days so far has been pretty uneventful, We have been working pretty late nights, and the hotel is less than half a mile from my office, so I have been walking back every night.

Last night however, we went to dinner with the shipyard personnel. We went to a Hyatt a few miles from here to a Japanese restaurant. There were 8 of us, so they sat us at the hibachi, where an Indian national prepared our Japanese food. It reminds me of Ichabon, where a Mexican national speaking in a terrible Japanese accent cooks the food and makes the same jokes every single time.

Regardless, they served about 7 courses of food, one course at a time… about the 4th course, the gentlemen I was with decided it wasn’t going to be enough food, and ordered no less than another 4 courses for each person… It if swam in the sea or crawled on land, it was ordered. Fish, shrimp, lobster, scallops, steak, chicken, pork, were all ordered in addition to the original meal. After course 7 it was plainly obvious we had over ordered. The meal took 3 hours, and cost over 200 dollars a head, but it was amazing.

We took a taxi from the restaurant back to my hotel. It was about a 10 minute taxi ride, and it costs about 16 dirhams, or less than 6 dollars. Cheapest taxi ride of my life, so Ramsey should be able to move around town rather affordably.

I should have a car in a day or two, and an apartment in a week or so. More to come.