Ladies Night with the Locals!

Last night we were still riding high on adrenaline from our day at the gorge, so we decided to forego our standard 9pm bedtime in favour of a night on the town with some Jollyboys staffers and MANY locals. Earlier in the week on the boat cruise we had met Faith, who organizes excursions at Jollyboys. After she spent the night boozing and cruising with us, she knew that we would be the perfect addition to Ladies Night in Livingstone (aka every Saturday night). We had been making these plans all week, and were really looking forward to celebrating our last Saturday in Africa, as well as the completion of all the amazing things we've done on this trip.

After we grabbed dinner, we were getting ready to go (translation: finding our least worn/dirty shirt, and readjusting our messy buns) when a knock came at our dorm door. Faith had sent us a messenger to ask "are you prepared?", and to inform us that she would meet us at a "pub" downtown. A few rounds of bananagrams and three bottles of wine later, we were finally ready to meet up with Faith and take on Ladies Night. As we were leaving Jollyboys, the gate man was luckily just finishing his shift, and also wanted to join Ladies Night! Even more lucky was the fact that he had Faith's cell phone number, and offered to walk us to the pub.

As soon as we got to the pub (translation: a raging nightclub, complete with black lights and full wall mirrors), we realized this was the local nightlife we'd been looking for. We were lead to the top floor by our gate man friend (Jonathan), and found Faith busting a move on the dance floor, so we grabbed some drinks and joined her! It was immediately evident that we were the ONLY visible non-locals (translation: caucasians) in the bar. Perfect opportunity for Julia to bring out her ghetto dance moves!! After a while we switched venues to the Fairmont Hotel, where another pumping nightclub awaited us. At around 2am (note: 5 hours past our normal bedtime) we lost our groove and ability to keep up with Faith and cabbed back to Jollyboys to call it a night. It was definitely a great way to spend our last weekend in Africa, and memorable for both us and everyone else present last night. Ie. we just got recognized as "the girls from last night" by the Jollyboys computer technician, who then insisted that we go out AGAIN tonight. Ladies Night = success!!