Yoga in Dakar...

We were invited to go to a yoga class last night! Its taught by a very nice Canadian lady, who teaches the classes in her apartment several times a week...for FREE!! There were about 15 of us there!

As the pictures show, her place is near the top of her building, and has quite a view of the city...this is late evening just before sun-down. (and yes, its quite smoggy).

She just moves the furniture out of the large room, and we lay our mats down on the grey and white marble floor...then off to tranquility....as she talks us through a series of poses, breathing excersises and relaxing moves, all with soft yoga music in the background. A much needed break from our daily stresses! Fantastic!! (Thank you Megan for letting us in on this!)

We were also able to get local cell phones yesterday! Justin had fun trying to communicate what we needed to the non-english speaking staff at Orange (the local cell service)...and was successful! Now we can stay in contact with each other and all the new friends we've made! We will just have to actually purchase those little cards that everybody is selling on the streets to keep minutes on them...which I'm sure will be interesting!

Another fun note...the President actually passed by our hotel twice yesterday! (His palace is only a few blocks from us) He is led by a sirened motorcycle policeman, and many 'official' cars. Traffic is stopped until the entourage moves through...some of the people watch and clap as he goes by...others barely acknowledge.

We are finally getting into a normal sleeping pattern...thankfully feeling less fatigued each day!