Stupid things i've done....

For those of you who have been posting (and those who haven't! I love you all!) i just wanna say it's cool to hear from you guys! I wish you were here with me! I hope everything is well with you.

So we went away for the weekend again! this time we went to Ada Foah which is basically where the Volta River meets the ocean.

We meant to leave at like 8 am but in typical ghanian fashion we left at 9:30. We we took a trou trou to Accra and then attempted to find a trou trou to Ada Foah. Of course no one can give you a straight answer here so after 30 minutes we finally found the place we supposed to catch the trou trou. Then we found another group of opportunistic young gentlemen who we think were trying to take advantage of us. Luckily there was one person in our trou trou who noticed the guy emphatically shaking his head outside of the trou trou telling us that they were going to "trap us". So we went and found other means of tranportation....

The ride up there was pretty uneventful. When we arrived we had lunch at a hotel on the water. This place was really expensive. By really expensive i mean a meal cost us $6. That's outrageous here. We're used to paying about $1 (usually less) for our meals. So we ended up splitting our (surprisingly small by ghanian standards) meals. But it was totally worth it because we sat outside and had this AMAZING view of the Volta river. and it was i think the most perfect weather ever. And to top it off, we noticed a scraggly man sitting next to us and we thought he looked very familiar. We could not for the life of us figure out where we knew him from. one of the girls finally realized that he was the coach of the Ghanian Black Stars team! Now for most people that's not very exciting but it was for us. This guy is the coach of the team that beat the US in the World Cup. The Black Stars are like the pride and joy of ghana. I think maybe even more so than Kofi Annan. They had a "friendly" match against Nigeria about a couple weeks ago and i think everyone in ghana was sitting in front of their tvs that night. Ghana beat Nigeria for the first time in FIFTEEN years. needless to say people were rioting in a way that was remenicint of the red sox beating the yankees...

Anyway, after our lunch, we called the place that we were staying and they sent a boat over to pick us up. It was more like a very long canoe for those of you who think i spent a weekend in luxery ; ). we motered over to this cluster of huts. They were set on this strip of sand with coconut trees everywhere. There were nice hammocks between the coconut trees giving the best shade! once you walked behind the huts over the sand dune there was the beautiful ocean. It was awesome standing in the middle of the sand strip and seeing a calm flowing river on one side and large and powerful ocean waves on the other. This place was awesome! the huts were so beautiful and relaxing at the same time. our floor was the sand and basically the walls were just palm trees braided together. but the beds were ridiculously comfortable. I'm not gonna lie, best night of sleep i've had since we were in Ghana.

Now for the stupid thing. Like dumb americans (american because i later realized that i didn't see a single ghanian getting into the water), we decided to go check out the ocean. one guy went in and had to struggle to get back out of the water because the waves were so strong and the undertow just pulled you right back in when you tried to get out. So we stayed further up on the sand. Anyway, we honestly only went into our ankles but the waves would come everyonce in awhile and drench us. So you'd fall back from time to time. For you ladies, you know that sand just gets stuck in the most awkward places. So i decided to bend down and clean out my bathing suit. Well apparently i didn't have enough time between the next wave. i was quickly knocked down and dragged out. about three people tried to grab me but the wave pretty much had me. I tried to swim to shore but it wasn't working. Phil grabbed my arm but just managed to fall too. I kinda gave up and hoped the wave would just carry me to sure which by the grace of God it did. I think i really scared everyone though. I felt bad. Oddly enough i was more mad at the fact that i lost my hairtie...

After that, we decided to stick to the river side. We hung around and red on the beach. Then the stars were beautiful at night. there weren't really many lights so we cold see them soo clearly. We woke up at 5:30 so we could catch the sunrise and it was just so peaceful. it was an awesome sight with the river to our left, the rising sun (well kinda...) to our front and the calm(er) ocean to our right. After that we kinda just relaxed and read in hammocks and such until our banana pancakes (i nkow your jealous) were ready.

Later that afternoon we went to a Rum making village. It was cool. we thought the tour was gonna be so much more though. They jsut wanted us to buy the rum though. We didn't spend to much time there. they had us sitting on benches and our butts were sore. And after that we took the boat home! It was an amazing weekend! And if you read this far i'm amazed!!!