We made it to Accra. It always feels like a great feat to leave Yendi behind and to get to Accra. It means that we have successfully closed up the mission house, paid all the bills, left enough food and meds for the babies, taken care of all the money and got all our bags packed! Which means we are truly on our way home.
We got up at 5:00 this morning and started rushing around to finish the last-minute things that we could not do until this morning; bleaching toilets, take batteries out of clocks, write instructions to Mr. Iddrisu, lock bed room doors, tape the refrigerator doors shut, close the windows, turn off Starlink and double check that we had our passports and money. We went to Red’s house at 6:05; he was standing outside waiting on us.
Red drove us to Tamale and dropped us at the airport after we filled the van with diesel. He was not going straight back to Yendi; he was going to stop by his daughter Pa-Naa’s school and pick her up. She is going to be out of school for the next few days and needed a ride back to Yendi. Red called a few minutes ago to make sure that we made it safely to Accra and to let us know that he made it safely back to Yendi.
Bizmark, the driver with the van, was waiting for us when we exited the airport. He said that the van was still in the shop so he brought 2 small vehicles to pick us up and take us to the hotel. He said that hopefully the van will be out of the shop by Wednesday when we need to go back to the airport to fly home. If not, he will bring 2 vehicles again. We don’t pay any more for 2 vehicles than we do for one van so we don’t mind how we get to the airport.
By the time we got checked in at the hotel ,it was time to get something to eat. We caught a taxi and went to the Indian restaurant; we had lupper, a late lunch early supper. The food was delicious. After we ate, we started walking. We needed to catch a taxi to take us back to the hotel but I wanted to do a little shopping first and we needed to walk. We walked for about 20 minutes to the busy part of the area where the street vendors have set up their wares. I bought a few strands of beads and then checked with the old guy who sells silver jewelry. I did not need any silver jewelry; I just want to visit with the old guy and see what he had.
This afternoon I have been working on the computer entering things I have been collecting. I have scraps and bits of paper here and there where I have written down cultural information, (stories, proverbs and songs). Every so often I enter them into the computer and throw the scraps away.
We are tired and are planning on going to bed early. The beds in the hotel are very hard but at least the air conditioner seems to be working well.
Please continue to pray that we have save travels!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
Well, they have done it to me again! They have packed up that blue van with a bunch of ugly suitcases with bright green and blue luggage straps and they have left! I saw Dad loading the suitcases and I suspected that I was going to be lonely again and hungry! No one feeds me like Mom feeds me! Mom’s food is the best!
One would have thought that I would get some special treatment this morning before they left but all I got was the heart of a cabbage that was left over from supper yesterday! Mom came rushing out to my condo with cabbage core in hand! She greeted me and talked to me for a while and tried to get me to take the cabbage core from her! What an insult! Who eats raw cabbage for breakfast? Now if she was offering me a handful of grapes I would have taken them but I have to say “no thank you” to a cabbage core. I know what the real problem was; Mom is cheap; she is so cheap that she did not want to throw that cabbage away so she decided to give it to me! Really! Do I look like a garbage disposal? Mom left it beside the door to my condo. I actually love cabbage; especially the cores but not for breakfast! Don’t tell Mom but I intend to eat it this afternoon.
I sure hope that Mr. Iddrisu and Donkey remember to feed me! You know sometimes they are a bit dingy! Donkey told Dad that the lock to his gate was not working and he wanted Dad to buy a new one. When Dad went to check to see what was wrong with the lock, he found out that Donkey had the key in upside down. Excuse me! This is the guy that you are leaving to take care of me?
The parents always ask for prayers for safety while they travel; maybe someone should put me on the list!
Love, Skeeter
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