Another busy week in the books. Thursday and Friday, Dan taught trainings at the office for the better part of the morning. Friday, I ran some errands to top up the electricity and go on a wild goose chase hunting down dishwasher tablets... for which we have now checked four stores and no one has any... weird.
Friday night we wanted to go out for a bite but wanted to try somewhere new. Recently, just on the other side of the US Embassy, a new wing place opened up. It's called Lord of the Wings... see what they did there? The menu is sizable and seems to be a knock-off of Buffalo Wild Wings in the States. They have a few different types of wings and then 15 or so different sauces. Now, this is Ghana where spicy food is a big thing. So we decided to try a few different sauces and Dan stuck around the middle of the heat scale. His thought process was that given Ghana spice, anything labeled as spicy would be tear-up-your-insides/smoke-out-your-ears spicy. The wings came and while tasty, there was no kick at all, which left us a little disappointed. Oh well. You live and you learn. At least it's a walking distance place for a decent meal and a beer after a busy day.
Saturday we had plans to meet up with some of Dan's coworkers to watch the Rugby World Cup semifinal of South Africa v. New Zealand. The pub is really close to this clothing store I've been wanting to check out so we left a little early to go there. It's called Brown Sugar and they have really cute clothes on their website and in the window (very American looking). We went in and the place is pretty small but they do have quite a bit of inventory. I was pretty disappointed to learn that all the clothes I thought were cute and could wear in the States were... actually from the States. I would say half the inventory is called Forever XXI Contemporary. Now I have no idea what the Contemporary line is or how it differs from standard Forever XXI, but I cannot justify paying $60 for a dress that is from there. For that price, there are many better-made options in the States so I suppose I'll set aside my shopping desires until I get back to the homeland in a few weeks.
The rugby group was fun: me, Dan, Veronica, Noks (wearing her South Africa rugby shirt), Janni, and "white Joe". White Joe requires differentiation as we ran into "Teddy Bear Joe" who is Ghanaian and was also at the pub watching soccer. Unfortunately, SA lost to the All Blacks but kept the score close which is an impressive showing given New Zealand's dominance in the sport. There was a promotion for Carlsberg beer that you got free swag if you drank so many beers. Given there were quite a few of us and we were there for 3 hours, much swag was procured. I think by the end we had 3 shirts, two hats, and two coffee thermoses amongst the table.
After rugby, we got some last minute groceries and came home. Hannah and Robin came over for dinner but we were all pretty exhausted by 10:30 or so. Watched a little college football an then hit the hay. There's a game at Wembley in England today so NFL watching starts a little earlier than usual in our house. Looking forward to another Fall Sunday!
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