"Lucky" is how Amber Raftery describes her family, lucky and very very tired.
Amber from Kilmore in Wexford, who is 20, is holidaying in Marrakech with her parents, three of her sisters and two of their partners and they were caught up in the panic of the earthquake on Friday night.
"We could hear it before we could feel it," Amber explained, "it sounded like a train or something going by the house, it just sounded really loud, it was getting really loud, and then just everything started shaking, you could feel the whole house shaking."
"Obviously we had never experienced anything like that, so it was really frightening," she said.
"It felt like the property was a rocket ship and was taking off, the ground was moving and shaking," is how Amber's sister's partner Joseph O'Keefe described it.
After the quake, Amber said she "ran up to the roof-top just to see what was going on".
"All you could see was all the dust and the smoke of the city had risen, so it was like a massive cloud, I thought maybe for a second that a bomb could have gone off," she said.
More than 1,300 people have so far been confirmed killed in the quake, with over 1,800 injured.
The group of eight then made their way through narrow streets to the outskirts of the city, fearful of aftershocks.
"With the amount of chaos on the streets last night it was so easy to lose people, you look behind you and there's just a stream of people behind you. It's just really hard to look out for each other," Amber said.
They spent seven hours amid the crowds on the main road into the city.
"Once we got out to safety there were people there who were so distraught, they had lost more than we could ever imagine," Amber said.
Nevertheless they described people sharing food, blankets and pillows with them.
They themselves had fled their accommodation with their passports, one phone with internet access, and little else.
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"My partner Hannah was asleep on the dirt with nothing ... and a lady came over with a pillow and a blanket," Joseph said.
"And they weren't just making sure that we were ok, everyone just rallied together," Joseph said.
The family returned to their accommodation on Saturday morning.
They describe the walls of their Riad showing surface cracks after the quake.
As yet, they are not quite sure what they are going to do.
They've been quoted airfares of €400 if they rebook to leave early.
"We're not sure what we can do, there's still a lot of uncertainty," Joseph said, "we have no information... on what we should do or what we can do, the only thing I was told basically was to stay put for the meantime."
They say that they feel very lucky.
"It's so hard to believe that we went through something like this," Amber said, "but we're just so lucky to have come out with no injuries, healthy."
"We are going to probably have a few nights where we're going to wake up, a few nightmares and things like that... but it's nothing compared to what the people of Morocco are going through at the moment," Joseph added.
"We will have the opportunity to go, if that's going to be on Friday or on Monday or whenever the case is, we still have that opportunity of going home. These people (who live in areas worst effected) don't have that opportunity to go to their home and feel safe."
Joseph went back to the old part of Marrakech yesterday morning, where he not only saw more damage but heard stories of homes and lives lost in other parts of the country.
"I got a taxi there this morning (Saturday), back from the supermarket and my driver was originally from the mountains. His cousin has died (in the earthquake)... his (own) house is complete rubble," he said.
"We've all seen situations like this on social media, the devastation that happened in Turkey this year, you see it and you feel sorry for them, and you can understand it, but once you live through it yourself it is a completely altering moment," Amber said.
"It's just so surreal watching things happen in real time. I remember looking at the phone last night when Joey told us that the death toll was 31 and now it's over 1,000 people, it's just so hard to even comprehend something like that."
