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Monday, December 14, 2009

Over the River and Through the Jungle, to the Capital we go...

We normal only go to the capital for government paperwork or to pick up teams that visit us on missions trips, but this last week our family took a family trip to buy gifts for Christmas. We left on Monday morning via government bus that departed at 5:00 in the morning. Think Grey-hound with African movies and music minus the bathroom.

Monday we arrived about noon. After checking into the Baptist guest house. We headed out to the town. We went to the mall. The Accra mall is our only mall in Ghana, and one of only three in West Africa. It is really nice. It has nice stories like: Shop Rite, Game, Mr. Price, etc. These will not make much since to our American friends since all these are chain stores from South Africa. After a few hours of shopping we headed back to the guest house for relaxation and play. The guest house has a play ground that our kids and our friends kids played on for hours. (These late nights with mosquitoes, landed Patty with malaria, but after 6 years of not getting malaria, it was hard to remember it is still here, but that is another story)

Tuesday our friends watched out kids so that we could go shopping for our kids. I think that I never got as many gifts as these kids! On Wednesday, we watched their kids. So in the afternoon the kids where loaded up in a taxi and we headed over to Churcheese. The couple that takes care of the guest house told us about it. It is a mini-Chucky Cheese. They have a play land with ball pit. There is a mini-merry-go-round, and some games. The kids loved it.

After playing for about two to three hours the kids where ready to eat. They had great fried chicken and fries. Mom and Dad got to buy food from a new sandwich shop. We had shakes and smoothies with gourmet sandwiches. It was a really nice treat!


Then Thursday our kids said good bye to the Guest House Snowman and we headed back to Kumasi for our Thursday night Bible study. We where able to finish most of our shopping and had a great time of relaxation.



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