Feeding Monkeys and Other Miscellaneous Fun Stuff!

A few weeks ago we had the opportunity to visit the Kumasi Zoo. It was a great time together as a family. They have borught all the animals from the Accra Zoo, while it is under renovation. The zoo wsa not crowded, and the best part was that you could very close to the animals. For example the crocodilla pit was open, if a person wanted to they could climb right inside. THe monkey cages where open and a visitor could buy bananas to feed them. The girls loved throwing bananas to them and watching them do tricks.

Dad and the Girls outside the Zoo

One of the Monkeys enjoying some food we gave him!

Tick-tock, tick-tock, Captain Hook would not like this guy!

Patty with the girls.

The girls really liked this guy. He is the oldest male that the zoo has. He did not want to do any tricks, but he was quite friendly. His mate, an old female monkey, was quite funny. After we handed her a banana she acted just like kids in the States do. She peeled it, removed all the treads, cut off the ends, and then picked out the black spots. No kidding! She most get a lot of them to be so picky.

That day we also went to a fun restaurant. The restaurant is a food court style place and it is the only one that we have in our city of about three million people. It has a ice cream stand, pizza place, burger and chicken place, and a place that roasts chicken. But the thing that our kids love the most is that it has a small playground. It is like a mini-version of something someone would see in a McDonald's in the United States.

Ella drinking some Moroccan Coke

This is Patty's favorite meal at 'On the Run'. It is seamed rice with roasted chicken strips. The small plastic cup is filled with what everyone here puts on rice, it name is 'shito'.

About two weeks ago we had a work day at the school building that we use for Bible studies. The kids are on break, so it is a good time to gets things done. While at the school, one of our neighborhood kids caught this baby chicken. Its mother was not to happy, but the kids had a great time looking at it!

Ella, "The bebi ticken, picked mee!"

And finally, every three weeks we have a time to play football 'soccer' with our teenage guys. It is a good time for our teen guys to get their energy out, and for our girls to mix with community kids and learn Twi.

Ella loves close-ups!



Carey always likes to teach the kids new games. Ring-around-the-rosy it a new favorite in our community now. It is nice to she hear learning to community. It take a lot of patience and effort for her to get her ideas across. Most kids her to not understand English at all, and Carey only knows a little bite of Twi at this time. So it is a great learning time!