To The Beach!

Trip Start Mar 11, 2005

Trip End Mar 27, 2005

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Flag of Ghana Accra, Ghana
Monday, March 14, 2005

Next stop - to the beach! Sylvester took us to the Coco Beach Hotel and we walked through the grounds, past a small pool, a live band, and down the steps to some very rough water and dirty beach. I asked Sylvester to take our picture and as he was doing so, the batteries fell out of the bottom of the camera. I ran and put them back in and hurried back to get in the picture. Just as he snapped the picture, a big wave came in and soaked everyone's shoes. We missed lunch today and everyone was hungry so we decided to head back to the villa and have an early dinner. On the way back, we told the driver we wanted to buy some meat and he took us to a supermarket! Why he didn't take us there yesterday when we asked? So, make sure you say supermarket - not shop, or market or store! Hmm, they did have a small selection of meat, but it looked questionable, even though some of it was labeled cow (not beef, but cow). We found some frozen sausages from Four Inns - which is a small hotel owned by a Canadian and his Ghanaian wife

Andrew - On The Rocks!

. I had read that they had lived in Montreal for years before returning to Ghana and his wife had learned to make these great sausages from the Indians. We bought some for breakfast so we should have a good meal - along with the eggs we bought at the market. Hopefully they make it home, never bought loose eggs before and had to carry them home in a plastic bag! I was a little leery of buying the eggs as they were sitting out in the heat, but even here in the supermarket I noticed the eggs were sitting on a shelf, not in one of the refrigerated compartments they did have. We ended up buying a tin of ham - probably safer than the meat options. Back at the villa we thought we'd just whip up a couple of boxes of KD (we had brought them with us) and have the ham. Marian was having no part of us in her kitchen though! We were allowed to get drinks from the fridge ourselves but that was it. No cooking allowed. She asked when we wanted to have dinner and I told her now (4:30 PM), as we were all hungry. Dinner was served at 6:45 PM. Not sure what was so hard about the KD, since we ate the ham cold. I explained to her how to make the KD and she shooed me out of the kitchen. Shawn asked if I explained clearly to her that it was to be boiled in water, not palm oil. Actually, I did specifically tell her that part. She made us French fries with the potatoes we had bought. Guess she figured we were going to get our daily dose of palm oil one-way or the other! OK, so even here the KD doesn't taste the same. There must be a lot of salt in their margarine and since the milk is the long life stuff in the carton - it made the KD taste funny. I thought it tasted really salty. Fries were good, again a little different, probably the oil. After dinner we had the whole neighbourhood in the living room trying to get the VCR to work but no luck. Finally gave up and worked on getting the DVD to run. Yeah! It was working. Tried to play several of the DVD's we had with us but all made an error message appear of "Wrong Region". Didn't know it mattered. There was one DVD in the Villa, Charlie's Angels, and it worked. Boy, does that movie get old pretty fast when that's all there is to watch.