"Dress Shopping..."

A few weeks ago, one of my "ship daughters" asked Alisia, Heather, and me to go with her to find a wedding dress.  Becca, will be getting married here in Freetown at the end of November.  She wanted to get an idea of how much bridal dresses are, if they can be rented, where to go, and what is available.

Little did we all realize what an adventure we would be going on.  Now, in the US/Canada one would go to the phone book and look up Bridal shops,  make an appointment, and eventually purchase a dress.  In Sierra Leone it is a lot different.  Becca asked a day volunteer where a dress shop would be, he the name of the road and "generally" where it would be found.  Becca had arranged for a person to come with us to translate and guide us on the roads.

This is a picture highlight of the 3.5 hour adventure...

The first stop....

Don't think we will find any bridal dresses here...but they did refer us onto another place...

We thought this was the place, but no...it might have some promise though...

Dress in the window a good sign...

However, they only had 3 small dresses to rent.  They did tell us another place to go...

Asking for directions...

Is this the place?...

Only had a few dresses...way too big...

But hey...you can get deodorant, shampoo, and soap...

This place had no name not too sure how we found it, but they were very friendly...especially since it was dumping buckets of rain outside.  They did refer us onto another place...

Does this really look like a street that would have a dress boutique?

Asking again for directions...

Nice parking job Becca...

Another shop...

Yes, it has great promise...David's Bridal donations...

Wow...where do we start?....

Stress break!....

How much to rent?  $100 US?  WOW!!!

Traffic on the way home...sat in the same spot for an hour...only 1.6 km from the ship!?!