Shopping

by Rebecca

On Thursday me and mum went to the mainland to go shopping.We only go once a month and this was my first time and I really enjoyed it. We took the plane from Anse a Galet to Port au Prince, it was way better than the boat and only took 20 min. We went with Marty, Heidi was already in port waiting for us. She had to wait for a very long time as we waited for 1 hour outside the airport for our driver. Good job Heidi had a coffee shop she could wait in

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We drove to the supermarket, called Caribbean in the cattle truck. It was a very bumpy ride. The cattle truck has a big cage on the back where you sit on benches down the side but luckily we all 3 got to sit by the driver in padded seats. I did not have much space and was sat half on the gear stick, half on the seat with a big gap in between.

When we got to Caribbean, I found a very small trolley which kids use to be more like their mums. I used it to carry Matt’s shopping and whizzed down the isles because it can hold my weight. It took 1 or 2 hours for mum to do the shopping. I did Matt’s in 5 minutes. There was a huge tub of ice cream and I wanted mum to buy it but she said no because we were going out to dinner and It would melt. But mum was wrong, we did not go out for dinner and we did not get ice cream. We did not get to go out because it had started to rain and we would not have been able to get up the hill to the guesthouse. I was really disappointed we did not get any ice cream.

I was not a nice drive up the guest house. Mum and I sat in the back, Heidi and Marty got to sit by the driver. It was horrible, we were getting wet and shaken like a maraca because of the bad roads. When we got there we had dinner but I did not like it, the beds made up for it. We all shared a room and I slept really well.

The next day we had to go pick up a team from the airport but we got blocked by a mudslide and had to take a very long way round instead. When we got there it turned out they had been waiting for us for one hour. We then drove out to the boat dock and had lunch at Dan and Joys, we had really great ham and cheese toasted sandwiches. Then got on the boat and got home about 4 o,clock.                I really liked going shopping with mum.