Even though my birthday is today, we celebrated it on Sunday because the oldest daughter was home for a few hours from boarding school. Plus, traffic here is the worst I have yet to see (another post of its own) and to be able to have everyone at home at the same time during the week would never happen.
So, here was my Birthday day:
Lydia made me breakfast; pancakes, eggs, hot dogs and beans. Yes, that's correct. They offered me hot chocolate but I declined as I was already sweating through my clothes. Kuwaku, Lydia's hubby, said that when he was in America he was offered cold cereal for breakfast when it was snowing outside so hot chocolate in 95 degree weather is no different. Point taken.
We went to church together; stake conference. Imagine me, the whitest girl in all of Ghana walking into a big stake center full of black (it's okay to say black here) people, some who have never seen a white person in person before.
I was hoping Lydia would buy me this dress for my birthday but no such luck!
The Ghanaians are very proud of their religion no matter what religion it may be. They were selling this dress at the Temple Dedication. :)
Here's this week's little church friend of mine!
So cute! He is the Stake Presidents son-yes, the stake president is about 30 years old!
Then we went out to eat for lunch (I just do what I'm told so don't blame me for breaking the Sabbath!) I was a little scared to go out to eat because I've stuck to mainly bread and rice here so far. We ended up going to a little pizza joint, even though someone suggested Chinese...ummm...it's my birthday! The pizza was pretty good! I scarfed down enough to catch me up on all of the food I've been missing over this past week. Lydia also bought me a cake! We had to eat in the car because we had to be somewhere by 5:30 and traffic is so unpredictable here (Ghanaians say, "Take away" rather than "to go" when referring to food.). We cut the cake at the restaurant and took a few pictures.
Yumm!
Then we stopped for ice cream to go with our cake.
I realized the other day that I haven't smiled this much in a very, very, longtime.
Even though I'm so very homesick, I'm so very happy here.
Brock and I are looking at your blog right now! We miss you :) I'm glad you finally got to eat some pizza. You look good! I guess you won't be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, so I wanted to wish you a happy Thanksgiving. It'll be weird that we're not all together. We're going to eat at Chuck a rama! Gracie will be thrilled when she finds that out!! Hope all is going well. We are all finally feeling better over here - just hoping Brock doesn't get it while on our trip! Love you and thinking about you all the time! Keep leaving your dream ... :)
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