Back to Dhaka Mar 13

Today’s the day for the long drive back to Dhaka. Left the house soon after 7. Feels sad to be leaving here knowing that it’s very likely we will never be back. But it’s so nice to be able to picture where cherith lives now. Even though they will soon be moving to a different house. 

The trip was pretty good except for the first couple hours, there were a couple of the crew who were not feeling well. Had breakfast of eggs and ruti at a little restaurant along the road. Ruti is  Another kind of fried tortilla like dough. Very tasty. The line for the ferry was not nearly as long this time and we even got on a nice big one. Ate lunch at a KFC when we got to Dhaka around 1:30. On to the flat where we just chilled for a bit and then our family went out just as it was starting to rain and hailed two rickshaws. Was that ever quite a rickshaw ride!! They were trying to keep up with each other and it started to pour rain just as we got off and had to wait for quite a long time until there was just enough break in the traffic to be able to hold up our hands and stop everyone lane by lane as we darted across. We went to this tourist- y gift shop place absolutely drenched. Was rather embarrassing actually.  They had the mop out and mopped up behind us as we traipsed around in there making some purchases. Back to the flat by rickshaw again. Cleaned up and went to Daniel’s for a yummy baked potato bar supper. With a delicious apple pizza for dessert. Did some singing after supper. Seemed like we were kind of a tired bunch so didn’t stay late. 

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