A sign

So a week or so ago our sign at the top of road was taken down after a dispute between some people (It's complicated!) which means since then anybody driving past would have had no idea we are here - great for business! To be honest I didn't really like the previous sign and it was looking a little old so it forced me into organising a new one. I wanted a nice wooden one that looked authentically zanzibarian so I went with Tito to find a man who could make us a sign! We first went to a timber yard and after the process of saying hello to everyone four or five times one of the guys started to take us down the road to where they were making some boats. It seemed we had found our man! We spent nearly an hour discussing what the sign should be like - down to fine details of size of spaces between letters, words, size of letters, style of border, size of border so on and so on. I don't know why but it was one of my most enjoyable experiences since I arrived here, we were talking and laughing about different ideas and I felt so comfortable.
At one point I looked around and thought about how here I was in Africa sat on the side of the road with these local men, chatting and laughing, people walking by were looking as they were wondering what this young mzungu was doing sitting in the dirt laughing with the boat builders! At one point one of our gaurds clement walked passed, we called out to him and he came and joined us for a while - adding his thoughts to the mix as well! I thought about how my Dad or most of my family would have no idea about what I was doing at that moment, and would not be able to really imagine even if I described it to them. I thought about how my mum could never have imagined me being in such a scenario when she passed away, and would have been so amazed and interested to hear about it.
It was special for me, I wasn't a mzungu chatting and laughing with the boat builders, we were just men, going about our lives and it didn't feel strange to be there, it was normal. It sounds strange but I had an amazing feeling come over me about how life is so amazing, how my life is so amazing and how special an adventure we have started.
The sign should be ready in a week and even though I don't really have an idea of what it will look like I'm sure it will be great, I wanted it to have a zanzibarian style and so any imperfections will be just that and add to the character!! As long as they don't mess up the phone number that is! Oh and if it brings us more guests that would be great as well!