Saturday in Ghana

This was our first full day in Ghana and it was a great one! We started off the day with a delicious breakfast poolside at the hotel. Then we swam for a little while. Our great friend, and the children's former social worker (Ebe), then met us at the hotel and accompanied us to the Accra Mall. This mall is similar to a very small mall that you would find in the US. We enjoyed shopping around with Ebe and the children and buying a few items we needed. We were pleased to realize that there is a movie theater on the second floor and we were able to treat the children to their first movie in a theater, Frozen! This was also Ebe's first movie theater experience. So much fun!!!We also had lunch at the mall. Then we came back to the hotel for some more swimming, coloring, book reading, singing, and dancing. Both of these kids love to dance and crack us up with their moves. Gabriel is very into many of the African songs and dances right now and we are making a list so that we can help him download those songs in America. Today in the mall he even asked me to go up to a DJ and ask him the name of the song because he really liked it. :-)

Debo made great strides today. She is still very attached to mommy but was close enough to touch daddy a few times today and even let him hold her for a few brief seconds. She went to bed much easier tonight.

Gabriel had a hard time falling asleep tonight but I had a sweet chat with him about how all the food we have been eating with him are not right. He said, "it may say jollof rice and look like jollof rice but it does not smell right or taste right." He thinks it is because my skin is a different color. I pointed out that all the restaurant staff, including the chef has skin that is his color and today we even ate in two authentic African restaurants (not the hotel). He made it clear that tomorrow he would just drink tea. Until I reminded him of the sweet sausages that he had for breakfast and then he raised his eyebrows....I don't think his tea fast will last until breakfast. ;-)

Thanks so much for your prayers and support. We are abundantly blessed!

Here are a few pics from today. So sorry for all the Mom and Debo selfies....that's just what we do. :-)

Our Beloved Friend, Ebe