Olumo rock, Abeokuta.

Hi guys 😊. Happy holidays πŸ€Έβ€β™€οΈ!

I went to Abeokuta on Thursday and I just got back a couple hours ago. I’m going to proceed to tell you the story 😌.

It was Thursday. We had planned to go see Olumo rock because my mum said she’d been hearing about the rock since she was little but had never seen it. She wanted to go to satisfy her curiousity and wanted us to come with, we agreed ‘cos ‘Why not?’ 🀷. We planned to leave in the morning, by 10-ish but we delayed and delayed (I won’t lie, this was mostly me πŸ˜‚) and eventually left home 12:30. I don’t remember when we got to the park but I know it took us like almost 3 hours altogether to get to Olumo rock. Abeokuta isn’t actually far, it’s like an hour and 20-25 minutes but it’s a straight road so it just seems like an endless journey 😭. One good thing though is the breeze, the breeze, ooh la la 🀀, I slept till we almost got there.

First thing I noticed about Abeokuta was the red sand: red sand everywhereee, I really don’t know why. The second thing I noticed was the office of the governor: My God, the place looked like an estate from the exterior, I wonder how big it is inside. Just imagine, somebody’s office is an estate, ah πŸ˜ͺ. Third thing I noticed was that they had a cinema so I thought ‘Oh Abeokuta isn’t so dead. They lied’. I later went to that cinema, oh no, it’s dead, they didn’t lie 😭.

We got to Olumo rock and entered – one thousand naira per person. One guy volunteered to be our tour guide slash photographer saying he doesn’t charge much, we agreed and we began climbing. I actually thought that it was just a rock we’d just stare at and take pictures in front of. How I was wrong. We climbed a lot and the height was scary; I actually thought I was going to fall many times 😭. The tour guide explained a lot about the rock and said if you’ve not been to Olumo rock, you haven’t actually been to Abeokuta because it’s the origin of the town. He said other things but I’m not telling you, if you want to know, go to Olumo rock πŸ’.

We got to the top, took pictures and Mr. Tour guide said his charge was 5 thousand naira. My mum just looked at him like he was talking to her spirit twin, not her and last last, we paid 500 naira. This strengthened my theory that everything without a definite price must be priced down. So the brother wanted to scam us of 4,500, honestly, everybody is just mad: don’t let them scam you. We paid for our pictures, collected them and left. Our tour was an hour and some minutes max; it wasn’t long at all.

I proceeded to spend the night and the rest of Friday and some of Saturday with my baby boy that stays in Abeokuta. He took me out and his parents were very sweet to me, I’m even still low-key tripping for his dad πŸ˜‚. So basically, I had a fun weekend 😊.

Is Olumo worth going to see? Yes, I feel so. Learn a bit of Nigerian history, do some exercise, just pass time a little with it 😊. Go.

Till my next blog post, Seun the explorer πŸ’•.

Sand, sun and fun!

Hiiii once again 😊. Lool, I always seem excited, I know.

So my first blog post is going to be a sort of review in a way ish. I’m writing this cos I went to the beach recently and I’m still feeling the beachy vibeeeeesss.

Saturday was my lover’s birthday so on Sunday, we went to the beach. It was Elegushi. It was supposed to be Oniru but Uber guy told us they’re filling up Oniru. We called Oniru’s beach number that they put on the Internet, they didn’t pick, I don’t even understand why, so we decided to just close our eyes and go to Elegushi. I know most people have been there but for those who haven’t, Elegushi is at Lekki Phase 1, Lekki. Since it was Sunday and we got there by like 1, it was quite empty so it was actually looking like a private beach.

When it got to like 3, ọmọ see people, I really don’t know what’s private about Elegushi though πŸ’. We were looking for a place to seat, those beach constructions, I don’t know their specific name plis πŸ˜… and we finally settled for one that offered a good deal. He said we didn’t need to pay to sit but we had to buy something and so we did.

I’m begging you in the name of God, please if you see this place, don’t buy their jollof rice.

Their jollof rice was so undone the thing was making noise as we were chewing it. Even the chicken that was looking so massive, lol, it was bone and skin, lool, massive scam. So since the jollof rice was unfortunate, we decided to buy chicken and chips.

That thing you see above is 3 thousand naira, you can see the unfortunate rice in one corner. And they couldn’t even give us Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes right there, the salad had no cream and the chicken was so hard I was struggling with it 😭. So basically, it was a bad deal. They now wanted to scam is in the end untop of it all, lool, we were just dedd. The place was fine small sha, I was rhyming with their colours, they should have made me ambassador.

We brought drinks so we started playing random games. We played ‘Never have I ever’, one vulgar game that I shouldn’t mention 😌 and Lemon. Mehn, Lemon is the best drinking game ever, I’m serious. I played it at a party and hated it cos I was losing so hard 😭 but I wasn’t losing yesterday so I liked it 😊. Lemme teach y’all how to play it, you’re welcome 😌.

Basically in Lemon, everyone gets a number and then when the game starts, you have to say your number ‘lemon’ and somebody else’s number. Like let’s say I’m number 1 and I’m playing a game with 5 other people, I have to go, ‘1 lemon 5’ or any other number. If the number I pass it on to doesn’t pass it on as well, they drink. If they pause, they drink. If they stutter, they drink. If they call a number that’s not in the game, they drink. Any mistake sha, you drink. Doesn’t it just sound annoyingly fun 😊?

Well it was fun and one side effect to drinking too much is the constant urge to pee. Did you know that it’s 100 naira to pee at Elegushi? Yes oh, it takes two bottled water(on the mainland plis) to ease your bladder. When it was 5, my friends actually paid 150. I’m guessing the later it gets, the more expensive peeing seems to be though I’m not really understanding πŸ€”. At least the toilets were clean so that’s a plus.

We left by past 6 and came back to school to sleep and if we’d known 3rd mainland bridge was open, that’s where we’d have passed but we didn’t know so we took long route. Painful sturvs.

All in all sha, Elegushi isn’t so bad. Rowdy, dirty, expensive suya(1 stick, 1k, when the meat is not filled with gold) but at least clean toilet, affordable gate fee(same thing for practically every beach really). I give it a 5. A meh. E just dey.

So I’m done with my review but not a review-like blog post. If you liked it, do like or comment or both. Thank you 😊. Lemme drop one picture of me though it’s dark πŸ˜ͺ. Byeee 😊😊.