Enough with the depressing dog drama, on to our first week long vacation in Ghana! When I last wrote, I talked about our upcoming trip to Mole National Park, Ghana’s biggest and most well-know park. Everyone who works here goes to Mole eventually as it’s the only place to go to see elephants. Elephants are arguably the most exciting big animal that Ghana has, as it doesn’t really have other big game.

Gavin has really fallen down on his blog writing responsibilities, so I will attempt to pick up the slack! As I type it is a Sunday morning and he is actually off on a little bird watching trip with some colleagues from school. They left yesterday afternoon and drove a few hours north to try to find a particular bird (I think a moustachioed sunbird). This trip involved both an overnight stay in a Ghanaian truck-stop motel and a 4 hour hike in the blazing sun so I am thrilled to report that I volunteered to stay home with Nell. Reports back so far are that the group is having a great time-I am very pleased that Gav has found some people to Bird Nerd out with so that I don’t have to do it.

Before we talk more about our first few weeks here in Accra, let’s rewind a bit back to our last few weeks in Yangon. The last few weeks of any school year are a crazy blur of activities, but when you are leaving somewhere the craziness is exponential. Luckily Gav and I anticipated this and from way back in January decided that we would try to not put a lot of pressure to do things or go places in the final days but instead to take advantage of time that we had the whole semester to enjoy our favourite places in Yangon. In the last two months or so, every time we went anywhere we mentally said goodbye to the place in case we didn’t get a chance to visit again. That worked pretty well and we had some really enjoyable times and lots of great cocktails!