Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Saturday-- AKA The Arrival

There is nothing like waking up to see everything completely covered in snow and knowing that you are on your way to Africa where there is no snow!

The flight:  We all arrived at the SLC airport, Kassie and I bought our farewell Starbucks, hopped the plane to JFK  where we found Kellie, took the short ;) flight to Accra and suddenly we were in Africa (where there was no snow... I love it already)  :)

The airport:  We went through Customs, got all our luggage (luckily...one of Kassie's bags was the second the last to arrive), exchanged our money, and followed Ike out without getting stopped once.  We somehow were able to fit all the bags in the van and met Yao, our driver, Twi language expert, and friend.

Accra to Abomosu:  We left the airport and drove to the grocery store...inside a mall... to pick up some groceries for the week.  Kass and I found some Ghanian chocolate (that turned out to be...not so great), some African nutella (that turned out to be...really great), and digestives (which turned out to be... crackers).  Some prices were comparable to the states, some things were cheaper and some were substantially more expensive--a 2 oz bottle of mustard was the equivalent of $10USD.  whew.

The drive from Accra to Abomosu, the village where we would be staying for the week, was a 3ish hour trip and was gorgeous...and bumpy.  :)  We were all trying so hard to stay awake because it was so beautiful but jet lag + spending the night on an airplane = very tired people.

We finally arrived at the Guesthouse outside of Abomosu, ate our dinner of rice, chicken, yam balls, meatballs, and pastries and fell asleep.












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