Day 1 - Monday, June 18th

   Well, we finally boarded the plane at around 12:30 am  but it wasn't until about 1:30 that we left the gate. Dinner was served somewhere around 2:30 and thus the start of messing with our body clocks. A little more than 10 hours later we arrived in Ghana - 3:30ish in the afternoon local time.  Mary jotted down some notes from yesterday, which I've elaborated on in italics.

Ghana Blog

·      6/18/12

o   delayed flight

o   customs

§  girls didn’t have yellow fever proof - our girls were fine, but it was a bit scary for the other two as the threat was that they would need a new shot. Thank you to Claire for sending us with photocopies of our girls shots. I pulled these out and explained that we all had them. This explanation, some confusion coupled with a text from one of the moms and we were all through.

o   went to the mall modern mall with food court and nice bathrooms :-)

§  pizza

§  couldn’t bring bag into grocery store

o   can’t flush toilet paper this will take some getting used to!

o   3 hour bus ride  very nice bus and the roads were really good as well (not what I was expecting)          

§  police check points we came across about 5 of these. Very normal. They never boarded our bus, but merely shined their flashlights in and then waved us on.

o   stars are really clear

o   lizard in room

broken shower