Things have certainly settled down and life is back to normal for us. Hannah came over on Wednesday and ran errands with me during lunch and then we hung out here for awhile and worked. She doesn't currently have a job but is in the process of trying to write a book. As a result, she spends most of her time editing, and hanging out with me when she needs an excuse not to edit.
Thursday was NFL Draft night. Dan and I went to the draft in NYC back in 2010. We had a good time but it's definitely not an event you need to attend more than once. In the years since we attended the event, we have created a tradition on the first night of the draft. We have chicken wings and beer for dinner. I'm not sure how or why we started it, but it just kind of happened. And continues to happen each year in April.
This year's draft-watching spectacular proved slightly more difficult than in years past, that dreaded time zone change caused issues for us yet again. The draft began at midnight local time. Thankfully, Friday was May Day, a holiday in Ghana so Dan had the day off. So we had our wings and our beer in our team frosty mugs, and then took a nap on the couch. I can safely say I made it to about 2am before I crashed. Dan watched the entire first round, finally hitting the hay around 3:30am. Talk about dedication.
Dan's Friday was pretty lazy. Lay around, work out, take a nap, all the things you should do with a day off. I worked during the day and then Hannah invited us to meet them for drinks and dinner with another British couple. We met them at our favorite sushi place just for drinks and then we went to an Indian restaurant for dinner. The other couple, Peter and Annabel, are very nice. They are an older couple with three kids, two in college back in the UK and a 14 year old here in Ghana. Peter works for the British Embassy. They have been expats for almost 20 years, in India for awhile and in Egypt for 4.5 years... and yes, they were there for a lot of the turmoil and were evacuated a few times. Thankfully, Ghana doesn't have those types of issues.
The food and the conversation were very enjoyable. Afterwards, we parted ways with Peter and Annabel and we were walking to another place to wait for Asare (Robin's driver) to pick us up. Conveniently, the landmark he used at a meeting place is a French restaurant called Bread and Wine. Suffice to say, Asare arrived... and then sat waiting for us for awhile as the four of us went in for an after dinner drink, or bottle, or two, or... yeah.
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