Stuck in Agadir

Well, I had forgotten how obtuse Moroccan bureaucracy could be.  Not only did we have to fill out all our landing cards and immigration forms four times each for four different sets of officials when we first set foot in this country, not to mention all the aircraft documents and have dogs sniff our birds,  they've been demanding we do it all over again at each airport we land at!  I've been stamped into Morocco at least four times now.  Try explaining to these cats that we are already here....

What's even more maddening is that every other country we've been through has just waved us though as Air Crew in Transit and we haven't been stamped into anywhere from Gabon to Mauritania.  And the officials here seem to get quite excited, yelling and getting overly irate, and we just stand there smiling and relaxed and wait, and fill out whatever forms they hand to us. Ah Morocco.

So we finally receive our parts for our little unserviceability that stopped us here in the first place, but it takes about four hours for our engineers to get airside to fix the birds, as the airport officials just weren't having any of it.  And they had to fill out more landing cards!!!!  No shit!!!!  Then, they won't issue our flight permits to depart until they have the maintenance release forms, which are quickly provided but it takes them a few days to process.  We just threw our hands up and rented some Rhino buggies for the day and headed up into the Atlas mountains.....

Maybe, just maybe, we'll get our permits tomorrow....