GHANA!!!!!!!!! It's so beautiful here! I'm so excited to be in Ghana! This afternoon Krissy, Matt, Julie, Tori and I went into town and had our first Ghana adventure.  We took a taxi to Community 1 (everything is broken into different communities).  The driver dropped us off and the very first thing we saw were RIPE tomatoes! and avocados! We walked through the food market and saw fresh/raw pigs feet stacked in a pile, we saw these HUGE snails (that were still alive and moving all around), crabs sold in buckets.

snails!

  One lady was carrying a bucket of crabs and one of the crabs was escaping up the side and was almost out of the bucket.  I saw a butcher who had some kind of animal intestines all over the place (he tried to sell me the 'fresh' meat that had flies all over it).  There were tons of smoked fish.

Krissy introduced us to Fanmilk.  We had the chocolate one.  It tasted like frozen chocolate milk or like a fudgesicle.  Really yummy.

fanmilk!

These are rice bags that we thought were really funny! notice Cinderella, Santa and the statue of Liberty.

We walked around the fabric market and i got some really lovely buttons for a project I am working on.  I'm really excited about the buttons! I never found any like these in Freetown.  I also got some really nice looking/quality fabric that I will most likely use for a skirt and then perhaps make into something else in Togo. We shall see.
Ghana is a lot less crowded with people and with traffic.  It took us 5 minutes to go as far as it would have taken us an hour to go in Freetown.  The currency is CDS (pronounced see dees).

Here's our home!

The Africa Mercy in the port of Tema

And now the promised pictures from yesterday's docking.

putting the gangway in place

The port of Tema!

We had a wonderful welcome party! It's kind of cultural to all wear the same fabric and make it into different skirts and stuff for special occasions.  Our welcome party (the advance team from the ship who left a couple months ago).

Christmas is in 9 days!!! tonight is the Christmas play that we have been working so hard on.  Pictures will be up tonight.  I promise. (provided the internet isn't to slow)