Life's a Beach

We had another great day at the beach today with our friends Uxoa, Carlos, and their two girls. The weather was perfect, the drive was relatively traffic-free, the fresh fish was delicious, and we realized Alan has hit his 6 month anniversary of being in Ghana this weekend so it was a good excuse to celebrate.


Our perfect weather and almost desserted beach and one of the many people selling their wares to the few obruni's (white people).



Uxoa and I getting surprised by a wave's spray of water. The water was a little chilly.






Carlos and Malaika and Maite posing for the camera.


Uxoa trying to get our order straightened out for the waiter.



Our lunch. I can't remember the name of the fish but it was good...just an unusual texture. Something none of us had tried before.


These women were selling large shells for souvenirs. They were pretty but no one there seemed very interested in buying so they were doing a lot of standing around.


This was the funniest part of the day. Malaika found this little Ghanaian boy on the beach and be-friended him which included just grabbing his hand. He didn't say a word but just allowed her to walk around with him pulling him where she wanted to go. At one point, she brought him to Uxoa to show him off. Not sure what he made of all this but when Malaika tried to give him some rock she found on the ground, he quickly lost interest and went to climb a tree and dig holes with his friends and Malaika got a little distressed but waved him goodbye and that was the end of a short-lived courtship. It was all very cute.