Our first Sunday in Lusaka! Mum had been telling me about this great craft market that is very near the house, and so that was obviously on the agenda for today. We left the land rover at home and all piled into the Lexus after breakfast. We drove to the Arcades shopping centre, about 2kms from the house, to the Sunday craft fair. After eventually finding parking, we all piled out and started perusing the stalls. Each one sells something a little different, from wire crafts, jewellery, plants, clothes, mats, art, to rock sculptures and wooden items. Mum directed me to her favourite shop that sold beaded wire things. I instantly fell n love with the reindeers, who were perfectly formed all the way down to the antlers! They were K20 000 each for the two that I bought, and K5 000 for the tiny wire gecko, coming to an extortionate £5 :)
We walked around the rest of the stalls, Dan and I wanting to buy quite a few things that we knew we would never have the space to take home. One of my favourite shops was a metalworks one, where they take scraps of metal, cut and solder them together to make the most beautiful sculptures of warthog, meerkats, elephants, zebras, you name it! They then paint the sculptures with a black paint that stops them from rusting, really making them look even better. Unfortunately we would definitely not have any space for a heavy metal item in our bags, so I walked forlornly on, but I will make space in my bag for something the next time we come to Lusaka! Mum and dad had a look at a few mats for the front and back door made from strips of cloth weaved together. They decided to buy a couple next weekend, so we picked up some herbs for mum at K5 000 each and got back into the car to head to Pierre's house.
When we got to his house mum started on the two loads of laundry that we needed to get done, and dad went out to Melissa's to buy some more returnable beers. We also returned the bottle of bitters that I has brought from the house when we moved, mistakenly thinking it was mums, but she had already packed it. We put on say yes to the dress, my favourite show at the moment, while we waited for the 30 minute laundry cycles. Dad came back from the shop with some delicious smoked chicken for our lunch, and once the laundry was finished we set off again for home.
Dan set the smoking box back up to give the garlic another go as soon as we got back. Unfortunately both of us forgot about the soldering iron for just long enough that the ceramic bowl it was heating the wood chips in got too hot for the box to handle, and we managed to melt the bottom and side of the box where the bowl was. Thankfully not all the way through, but still! Mum and I set to work on making the dinner, a sort of courgette quiche that she found on pinterest. You grate up all of the ingredients amd cut the bacon up into small pieces, we obviously added more than the recipe called for, and put it in the oven for 30mins. It was really delicious, and something that I will certainly be cooking again! After watching a little more tv and researching more immigration information, it was bedtime after another great day in Lusaka.
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