Domingo na praia - The Story's End

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Entry Trip End Mar 19, 2006

  Luanda, Angola
Sunday, March 19, 2006

The next morning, we wake up, side-by-side, buckled in, dry mouthed, head pounding, inside his car, right in front of his father's house.  We both look at each other and start laughing. "Heck, what a night. Lets go to the beach."  We drive to pick up Burity's cousin and then were off to Luanda.   There's little traffic, so we're there before we know it.  
 
The beach we head to is on the Iliha, but not the "white man's" side with all our bars and beach chairs facing the Atlantic, no we head to the sound side facing a discarded ship, full of bush restaurants - here, the women are cooking fish out of the metal rim from your car wheel full of charcoal, they are set up on a plastic patio table, and they have a cooler full of cool drinks.   We grab a quick bite at one - 300 kz for dinner 100 kz a beer (75 kz - $1).   During which Burity has somebody clean his car for another 300 kz and we go for a swim in our undies.   We buy some glasses and see an artist walking by with a Turtle Shell that has been painted on.   I say I like it but have no money.  Burity starts negotiating, I tell him, "no, I don't need that."   He says, "but you like it, so I will get it for you."   He gets it for a price ¼ that I could have... something like 1600 kz. (~$20). 
 
The sun starts to set, we get back into the Sidekick, he drops me off at my house on Avenuda Portugal, and the day, this 5 day adventure comes finally to an end.

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