Heading to Morocco

Down to the crunch. Rob and I were both working and Zach had a test until the very last minute, so we were just in time for our Uber to arrive to take us to the airport.

But then they sent the wrong car… so we quickly scrambled to order a second one. Thank goodness for the quickness of Uber.

Of course, we got to the airport and our flight was delayed:(

There are some perks to long haul travel.

I love being able to squeeze in several movies, tv shoes, a few hours of sleep and some reading. I also like arriving at my final destination at night and head right to bed.

No such luck with this flight. We flew to Montreal first and then caught a direct to Casablanca – which was under 7 hours.

Upon arrival, we stood in forever custom line, collected our luggage and then eventually found our guide/driver Ali. We were all a little worried about our luggage – but relieved when they tarped it!

It was raining when we arrived, so took about 2 seconds for my ‘”vacation hair” to appear, lol.

Our final destination was Chefchaouen – about a 5 hour drive. However, we planned to stop and explore along the way. Our poor driver had to endure us all being pretty much comatose from fatigue every time the car was moving though!

We headed to the capital city of Rabat, where saw the Hassan Tower and the Mausoleum of Mohammed V, built in homage to the king, who passed away in 1961. His son and successor, Hassan II, who died in 1999, is also entombed here.

We then went to the Chellah Gardens – old Roman ruins occupied now by massive storks!

We went to a cool little place for lunch called Dar Naji and enjoyed our first couscous, meat and vegetable meal, followed by some mint tea that was good, yet a little odd.

We aren’t quite sure of the tea just yet…

We snoozed as our driver continued north through the mountains to Chefchaouen.

Our first view of Chefchaouen:

We checked into our charming Riad, called Dar Hicham. Each room is super unique and cute!

We decided to stay at our riad and had dinner – it was really good – kebabs and rice (and Zandra had spaghetti! lol). We shared a lot of laughs – that’s why we are here!