The cute little land of Osu

A day in Osu (a little town right outside of Osu) provided lots of entertainment for Julie, Leah and me yesterday.  We started off by going to the Ghanaian national museum (mom you should be proud, i willingly went to a museum). It was a nice museum.  Mostly it was about African religion, traditions and slavery.  Overall, informative but kind of...strange with the religion.  I was told that this particular museum has the largest and most intact collection of African artifacts in the world.  Unfortunately, the budget for relics (museums, castles etc) in Ghana is very small.  So, most of the artifacts are in storage.  Sad but more then likely true.  

This is a loom with traditional Keni fabric.  Kenti is the most expensive fabric in Ghana.   

Stools that chiefs sat on.  The stools all have different meanings based on the carvings on the base.   One of the stools was called the woman stool.  A man would buy his wife this particular type of stool after she has given birth. (future suitors, i want a new piece of furniture for every kid :) )

The Goddess of fertility

the priestess...i was slightly uh...creeped out (sorry, but it's true)

Drums! We were told not to touch, hehehe

I was more interested in the dancers.  We learned all about the different styles of dances (if i could remember how to spell them i would tell you all about them)

This dance was really funny!  It's a comical dance where the woman stuffs her booty with pillows and cushions and then shakes it like crazy.  The guy dressed in western/modern attire (note the tie and hat and trousers) and basically just stares at her booty.  It sounded rather funny.

One of the ways of 'showing off' is to call someone out and compare 'magical powers'.    Here the man is showing off the ability to not cut himself with a sharp knife on his tongue.

These are not fighting swords.  They are actually honorary sword things.  After a president is sworn in he has to swear allegiance to Ghana with one of these swords (not quite sure how it all worked, the guide talked really fast and had a heavy accent)

 After the museum we were so hungry! so we went food hunting and look what we found!!!!

Yet another funny African sign

sunglasses shopping.

They carry around these large boards with glasses on them (usually on their heads).  I ended up buying these glasses and turning them into a mask for a masquerade ball tomorrow (yay!)

We walked past a stand selling what looked like hamburgers.   I think the ladies told us that they were slightly spicy and were actually plantains...? i think...not sure....

The CUTEST ice cream and coffee bar! They made the ice cream there, it was very yummy!

We had such a good girls day out!

We had a great day! Took a tro tro back home.  Tro tro rides are always exciting and interesting.  We did a lot of walking yesterday and i was very glad to get home and be able to take a shower and drink some nice cold water. Im going to be sad to leave Ghana, i've really enjoyed it here.
night!