Greetings

Sorry no pictures. Dickson and I traveled to Ghana on Dec 24th. I really like it here we are in Nungua which is right outside the Capital Accra. I hope to make it to the beach on Wednesday and take a bunch of pictures this coming week. Christmas for us was very quite. We did observe Church outside with about 5,000 people who attended for 4 days straight. They went home some nights. They definitely know the Christmas is about Christ here!

New Hair Style!! What do you think?

This is Amy she is Yoruba decent. She did my hair tonight. Right out in front of the aparments. I thought a few people were going to crash there car. They were shocked to see a white person. They were not paying attention to their driving. It only look about 1 hour to do my hair. She said it should last for 2 weeks. I will be lucky to keep it for 1 week.

New Meaning to doing the Laundry

I have a great Husband!! I know in the States we complain that our husbands don't do enough, but Dickson can take a break. This is him doing our laundry. You 1st put it in a bucket of soapy water (it has laundry soap in it) then you let the clothes soak. Then you scrub them like your getting a stain out but you do all the clothes. Then you put them in another bucket to rinse them. Sometime you have to fill the rinse bucket a few times. Then you rink them out by hand and put them into another bucket to go take out to the Solar Dryer!!

Toliet

Bathrooms here are called the Toliet. The shower room is seperate. When there is no water you have to pour a bucket of water in the toliet to make it flush. Remember I am living in a house of 4 guys.

Ralph's Kitchen Photo 2

This is the left hand side of the kitchen see the big blue plactic containers. They hold water. Water doesn't run 24/7 here so you have to fill up these containers every day, so you can do the dishes and take your bucket shower (more about those next time). Also we are lucky and have a microwave. Not that it is used much. There is one shelf that they keep dry goods on. Kithens are the bare minimum here. Usually you only have one main meal a day. At night. In the morning they usually have tea and a slice of bread. Oh My Husband made me so happy last night.He found peanut butter (I was never a huge fan). I bought honey today so I can have peanut butter and honey sandwiches. I had them as a kids. You always need comfort food when your away from home.

Rough few Days

It has been very hot and the power has been off a lot. So no fans or anything. Two night I actually cried because I was so soaking wet from sweating. Dickson and I actually went outside last night at 2am for 1.5 hours to cool off. We are really considering living in Ghana they don't have the power problems and most of Dickson business is coming from there. We hope to travel there during Christmas week.I went today to apply for a Ghana visa I will pick it up on Thursday. Dickson has to travel tomorrow for a funeral. I will be stuck here for 3 days without him. But I am find things around here. They have Pringles potatoe chips, and candy bars from the US. I like the chips not the candy. LOL I normally only eat one main meal a day then a snack of fruit. I have lost 10lbs. Which is good. I haven't been taking pictures because it take so long to upload them. But maybe while Dickson is gone I will take picture of the apartment we are staying in so you can get an idea. Everything is built out of cement here. Till next time.

Pictures below

The top one is from the Penacostal Church we attend on Sunday Ralph (Dickson Cousin, but they were rasied like brother) is on the far left and his younger brother Mark far right had all be baptised the day before and the pator was blessing them.

The next picture down is Ralph and Dickson on Lagos Island close to Ralphs work at King Street. We were walking down to on Old Catholic church it was the 1st one built by the British. I hope to get the picture of that up.

Please let me know what you want to know about my adventure on the comment sections if nothing is left I dont know what you want to know about.

Some Nigeria Foods

Suya is my Favorite it is the one served on newspaper. It is thinly sliced beef BBQ with hot chili spices (still a little to hot for me). It also always has fresh red onions chopped up and put with it.

The second picture is the Dinner we had at Church for their Thanksgiving, We had Jollof Rice, Cabbage Salad, Beef Piece from a cow they killed today.

I have Arrived!!

Sorry I had hoped to post a few pictures but I forgot my camera cord at the hotel. The travel was good and today was very relaxing. I am very happy to be here. I had my favorite food last night Dickson made sure I had Suya! Lagos is much cleaner than the last time I was here. Even less polution. So I am very happy. Dickson has been great and his family member Ralph has been very hospitable and kind. Hopefully tomorrow I will post some pictures! Hope you all had a Good Thanksgiving with your families!!

Ready for the Adventure to Begin!!

I didn't really sleep last night. I was busy trying to get 40lbs out of my 4 bags. I found out my bags could only weight 50lbs each instead of 70lbs. So that was fun!! NOT!! But I think the mission is accomplished!! Next time you hear from me I will be in Nigeria. Hope you all have a Blessed Thanksgiving!!