MOM AND DAD!

My parents came to visit me for a week and we went to Fes, my site Mghila, Meknes and the Roman city Volubilis, Rabat, and Casablanca.

Fes
My parents met a tour guide on their train from casa and so we went to see the king’s palace and the jewish quarter with him.

King's Palace

big doors are a thing here

Jewish quater...note the street is actually straight lol

Then the next day we went on a tour of the medina.

shoesssss

tiny streeets of fes

dad walking through the medina

bride lifter

tannery, the grey stuff is piegon poop lol

The carpet co-op that tried to sell my mom a carpet for 10 thousand US dollars lol

good try carpet guy, good try.

ceramics factory

putting together a table

Side note: My mom bought a tagine at the ceramics factory and the next day it broke on the way to my house...faiiiil

Mghila 
My parents met my host family and we watched 3 hours of my host sister Iman’s wedding video and looked through about 500 photos. Ate some wedding food – tea, coffee, and cookies followed by roasted chicken with olives and lamb with prunes for dinner and a fruit platter for dessert. Also, my host uncle explained to everyone that it cost my parents 1 million dirhams to get to morocco, when we corrected him with the actual price he seemed really disappointed lol

host fam meet actual fam

the crew - gpa, mama and host pops

teaaaaaaaaaaaa

mom and mirium :)

Meknes
We stayed in Meknes for two days and my friend Gussie came to hang out with us. We were really getting into the culture by eating at the hotel, pizza hut and mcdonalds lol but in actual cultural activities we saw the bab mansour, which is HUGE and we went to Volubilis - the old capital of the Roman province of Mauritana where olive oil, wheat and wild animals (elephants, lions, and bears) for the Colosseum were exported to Rome.

Bab Mansour

Volubilis

roma roma roma!

the gang on the main street

pretty mosaic

Rabat

We were only in Rabat for a day but I made everyone go to Chellah – which was a neighboring town that is now within Rabat and was founded by the Phoenicians and was also a Roman town. As well as a muesum and we ended the day with shopping!

Chellah!

more chellah

this was found in Volubilis and they call the place they found it 'the house of dog' also known as a brothel lol

Rue des consulus for some serious shopping. 

Casablanca
In Casablanca we went to the Hassan II mosque which is the third largest mosque in the world and the largest outside of Saudi Arabia. 1/3 of the mosque is on the water because of the koranic verse “The Throne of God was on water”. We also went to this seafront line of restaurants for lunch/dinner and then we stopped by Rick's cafe.

it has the highest minaret in the world - 200 meters high. 

there are 41 fountains here

me and dad

Rick's reconstructed

drinkin

cheeeers!