HOME SWEET HOME

We are safely back in Ghana. We arrived late last night a very long line at Immigration. Dan and I have both been fighting food poisoning for the last day or two so we were both pretty exhausted by the time we landed. Dan got stopped by the "Ebola police" because he had a slight fever. So he had to sit and wait and get checked again. Thankfully he passed. Never a dull moment.

We got our luggage and got a taxi home. We walked into our apartment and turned on the air conditioners, lights, etc. Then we noticed these three cards on the table from Hannah and Robin:

One is a 30th birthday card for me, one is a card welcoming us home and saying how much we were missed (and yes, Hannah has drawn four gators on it cheers-ing with beers). The most incredible was the note from Robin saying that our place had changed to an ECG (Electic Company Ghana) meter and was now a prepaid thing. He said where we go to top up the credit but that he put 100GHS on it to get us through the weekend. Then he says our sheets have been freshly washed and he hopes our trip was good.

Ok, seriously who has friends this good? I mean we've all been lucky enough to have the friend/excellent neighbor who grabs your mail or feeds your goldfish/cat/dog. But to prepay our electricity and wash our sheets?! These two are amazing. I've never been so grateful as I was that moment after a long day of travel while not feeling well to know that my AC will stay on all night and my sheets aren't filled with the must of an idle three months.

We slept well in our own bed and got up this morning to start cleaning the house and getting the laundry caught up. We're only here for about 6 days before we go on vacation but after that we should be here for awhile so may as well get things back in working order. I'm off to throw a new load in the washing machine, then we're going to go attempt to eat some lunch and pick up some groceries.

Hooray for tonight being the first home cooked meal we've had in months!