St. Louis

Our hostel ended up being really nice and the guys who owned it were really nice. I had read that St. Louis was a lot like New Orleans... i could see that there. There was a lot of really cool architecture and it was really pretty but seemed kind of rundown. St. Louis is really like an island in the Senegal river which borders Senegal and Mauritania. You must take a bridge to get there and its only about 20 blocks long by about 7 blocks wide. You can take a bridge out to a smaller penninsula from the main land that has ocean beaches. We walked around and shopped most of the day saturday. In the late afternoon we took taxis to the occean to swim. When we walked over the sand ridge and saw the stretch of beach, it was so beautiful. but as we got closer the beauty was overshadowed bu the washed in garbage and a headless rotting goat. The waves were great but we did get harrassed by people trying to get us to buy stuff (comme toujours) On the way back all eaght of us and a local we called Joe crammed in a taxis back to St. Louis.

That night we went to dinner at a really beautiful restaurant along the river we had found earlier during the day. we ate delicious food and hung out there for a few hours. was a good ending to a great day in St. Louis.