Today I was playing in my hotel room with Sarah, Stan and Phoebe.  Then the phone rang and mummy told us to come in to her room.  So we did and she told us that we were going to the market. 

When we got there lots of people were asking us to buy their stuff.  

I went to a spot that I liked and they were selling little animals made out of beads and the man that was selling them wanted to sell them for 70 meticals (NZ$3) each.

But I made him make the price go down to 50 meticals so I got five of them for 250 meticals but I can't say what animals they were because some of them will be presents.

I went to another store that sold helicopters made out of softdrink cans and there was a battery that you put the wire on it and it would start moving.  A man asked daddy if he would buy his T-shirts and daddy brought two white Mozambique shirts.  And then he bought two red Mozambique football jerseys.  Phoebe got a bit of material that had two giraffes hugging on it. 

Then a man sold us a mask that he made out of an old pot.  He had to hammer and hammer and hammer it.  Then we drove back to the hotel 

A while ago I got to Tofo in the Inhambane province of Mozambique.  

There was a fence next to the road that was for a campsite and just above the fence I could see Ammie's big truck and we went and stayed there when we got there Sarah and I jumped out of the car and ran to the truck to see Ammie.  

First Lauren walked out and then Ammie walked out and Sarah and I ran right to Ammie and gave her a hug.  

Then we started playing.  Then we went to the beach.  

When we came back I had a shower and had dinner then I went to sleep.  

When I woke up I had breakfast and then we made houses out of pillows and they kept falling down.

Ammie has a friend called Leah.  She was really nice and she had a big sister called Sarah who is also really nice.  They live in South Africa too.  Sarah always looked after Phoebe and Leah always played with me, Sarah and Ammie.

Then we left to go to Vilanculos and then to Pomene.  I went on a boat with Stan when daddy went scuba diving.  Stan and me didn't go scuba diving though but we still got to see lots of awesome things.  

Stan spotted a great big sea turtle floating in the water.  When daddy came back from his dive he said that he saw the turtle under the water.  When he was busy diving Stan had white stuff on his shirt.  I got some off for him and it was salt.  We started licking it off of his shirt.  

Then we saw a whale spout and then we saw a whale tale.  It was funny seeing daddy climb on to the boat.  He had to take his weight belt off and his air thing off, but he kept his flippers on so he could kick up to the boat.  I had to get off my seat because that was where daddy climbed on.  He got it all wet.

Pomene was really cool and there was an infinity pool and a bridge going across the pool so you could go to the restaurant.  The pool was freezing !  

Our chalet was basically outside so mosquitoes could get in.  

But the mosquitoes could not get us because we had mosquito nets around our beds.  

We stayed four nights and then we went back to Tofo which we just got here now. 

My birthday was really fun.  First when I woke up I was in my tent and I said "happy birthday Meg" then Stan said "oh yeah, happy birthday Meg" and then my friend Ammie came up with her older brother Mitch and Ammie gave me her presents which was a bag that Mum really loved. 

Then Bryce came up and I got the rest of my presents which was 2 suckers, a bracelet and a card.  Ammie and Bryce couldn't put the bracelet on so Mitch had tried and he got it in a knot and then he undid it.  

Then we went down the ladder and the adults started singing "happy birthday to Meg" and then I went to the restaurant to have breakfast with everyone and I had pancakes, fruit salad and ice cream!   

Then Mum gave me her presents which was a pretty flower dress and a jewellery box shaped of Africa.  Then after that she gave me a sarong (a dark blue one) that had elephants and giraffes on it and I also got a book and daddy gave me a Japanese golfing shirt.  

Then we had a birthday cake that Ammie’s mum Lauren baked.  On the cake there were little lolly pops.  They were all caramel flavoured except for one that I had. It was pink. I got to cut the cake and I got the biggest piece and Stan really wanted the biggest piece. They were all basically the same size.

I was going to go horse riding but the weather was bad so I got to go horse riding the next day which was fun because my horse was really high and I did cantering, walking and trotting on the beach.  

Cantering was really fun.  Daddy nearly fell off his horse because his stirrup came off.

Today I am not feeling well because I had a high temperature and I vomited in the night so I had to go to hospital which is also the Doctors.  Daddy took me there but no one spoke English so it was hard for daddy.  I could have had malaria.  

Malaria is a sickness that comes from mosquitoes.  You can’t pass it on to any one else, only mosquitoes can.  It is the most deadly disease in Africa.  We all take malaria tablets everyday.  

But I didn’t have malaria and the doctors didn’t know for sure so I had to have a malaria test and they had to test my blood so they put a needle in my finger and it really hurt because they put hand sanitiser on it and that made it sting a lot. 

Then I was given a form and they spelt my name wrong, they spelt it MIG.  The result of the test was “Negativo” which means negative in Portugese.  

We walked back to the hotel and there was a big wedding for the Mozambique President’s daughter.  We bought some cashew nuts from this girl.