We arrived in Accra safe and sound. The flight was very nice and uneventful. It was a difficult city to get around in but we managed to get to our hotel walk around Osu area and immediately were bombarded by the market people following us around and trying to get us to buy things. That was a bit annoying so we returned to our hotel for a while and went out again to purchase our tickets to Tamale. At the ticket office we met a lovely woman from Tamale who told us where we should go in Accra and she also owned a hotel in Tamale which is where we are staying tonight and it is very nice.
Back to Accra we went to a museum, and art centre then walked around a bit and went to a restaurant on the beach and tried our first Ghanian food which was very good. We may have had a couple of beers while we were there.
The flight to Tamale was great but we had to leave the hotel at 4:30am to board at 5:45. That taxi ride was eventful but will take too long to tell you about.
Julie met us at 7:10 am what a great sight!! We went to her village and stayed there for 5 wonderful days. the people were very welcoming in fact for the first three days we constantly had people coming by to greet us and give us Ghanian food. I must confess we thought we would take to it better than we did especially since Julie likes so much of it. Well we didn't but we tried.We were also welcomed by the children anywhere from 1 to 20 at a time. They were lots of fun they entertained us as much as we entertained them. They are beautiful!
Staying at the village was a wonderful experience we survived no electricity or running water. Julie and her village people cetainly made up for that.
We were given gifts from the family of Julies counterpart Sadiq and from the Chief. Sadiq's family gave us a guinea fowl and the Chief gave us 4 yams and a rooster. So what do you think we did with them. We had already slaughtered the guinea fowl and had started preparing it for dinner that night so we had to tie up the rooster in the other room for the next day. It kept up a constant dialog with the guinea fowls and roosters outside. But we did prepare it and had it for dinner the next night and it was delicious!!! We didn't name him!!
It;s late and we have many stories to tell. This is an amazing experience so far. We are off to Mole natl park in the morning.
We are all safe and happy.. Sheryl and Gail
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Hey Julie So glad to see you are doing so well after all this time I finally got your site on my own computer I've read some of the things you've written but couldn't get it myself. This really awesome I'm so glad that your mon and Cheryl got there ok and are enjoying their time with you.I just love reading about your trip and I really admire you for what your doing I could never do it .It sounds like you really are pretty comfortable in your little house the pictures are awesome.Your Mom was so excited about the trip and I'm sure she'll have a lot of stories to tell. I'm going to make sure to get together with her and here all about this great trip. You take care keep up the good work your in my thoughts and prayers everyday
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Judy
The food would scare me too Gail! Sounds like everyone is having a great time - I can't wait to see pictures and hear more about it!
ReplyDeletehi julie this is from mary ann your mom sounds so happy to see you in your neck of the world/i spoke with her today and she says she's still on african time /now i'm going to read your blog you are amazing much love and happy thoughts
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