Yesterday we loaded up a few cars and headed for Lumley Beach to meet a bunch of guys who wanted to play frisbee. They were a youth team, incredibly fit, really good natured and won every game, but our players had a lot of fun anyway! The little boys played in the sand and the sea with some friends from the Ship and some other bigger boys who they met on the beach. I bought a couple of necklaces from the mobile craft market. A few women just walked up, almost buried underneath all the things they were carrying, they didn't say anything to us but just simply unpacked and laid out all their crafts on the sand and then sat down and waited to see if we wanted any. Later on we met the beach security and lifeguards came and said hello, and then another craft seller who gave the boys bead necklaces in the Sierra Leone colours. I was with my friend Natalie, who was dressed in long sleves and longish trousers, at the time reading a book with a t'shirt over her head to protect her skin from the sun. When our new friend discovered she does not yet have a husband he was quite sure she would find one in Freetown and then told her he liked what she was wearing!! This is quite a common event here - being asked about your husband and then having a proposal if you admit not having one yet, but we did laugh afterwards because of Natalies 'highly attractive' attire.
frisbee on the beach...
...while the little ones splashed...
...and dug holes...
...then we had lunch - while wearing the necklace my new friend (and Natalies future husband) gave Tom...
...we watched a ton of people pull this boat out of the water and all the men from our group push a car out of the sand...also a few people walking past with fruit in baskets on their head and the same craft laden ladies come past...and we waited for our lunch, remembering that we are truly back in West Africa and nothing happens very fast around here...
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