Friday, October 17, 2008

PICTURES ARE UP!

So thanks to a little internet cafe in a nearby village, we were able to upload some of our pictures! Unfortunately, teh way it is working, I am unable to tell which pictures I am uploading since they are only displayed as file names until after the 10 minutes of uploading a group of 5 is complete. woah run on sentence. It also doesn't put them in the order I would like, so things may seem a little scattered. Sorry about that. Anyways, I've been so excited to share how beautiful this place is so I'm glad to finally be able to! Unfortunatey my camera ran out of batteries right before we went to teh Kakum National Park with the Canopy walk way, so I will be unable to show you pictures of that like i would liek to .... However you can check out this link to see other ppls pictures and get an idea of what it is like: http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2928586660095752320ixVeKv.
Anyway hope you all enjoy seeing some of our pictures! This is only some so we will have to have a big slideshow or something when i get home. =)



Swarm of children surrounding "abruni"
the crowd got even bigger...
At one of th rest stops on our time to kumasi for the first time.
view from our balcony at dusk

This is the view from our back porch. See, i'm living in a rainforest!
these next few are from the main road leading into town.

there are goats everywhere in this village! Lots of chicken too. Not the animals you expect in Africa, huh?


We had our taxi driver stop while driving to a near by town to get these pictures. we just couldn't resist. more of the view










View of the sunset from our balcony. amazing.

here are two more fromt eh side of the raod.




this is at teh beyin beach resort. Notice the cute little huts that serve as hotel rooms? It was so beautiful here. We even got a chance to go swimming. The only problem was the algae in the water. At first it wasn't bad, and the ocean ust seemed to have green polka dots. But soon it clinged and smothered. That's when it was time to get out of the water.


Regular Ghanaian Dresscode is unncessary in tourist areas. Normally the hips are forbidden but this resort had all kinds of europeans and everyone was in bikinis.
upside down. I wish i knew how to fix this online... and why won't brandon smile? haha. Oh an notice I am not wearing makeup!




Nzuelo Silt village


sorry this one is sideways.



Canoeing to the stilt village.



It is hard to tell because of the way everything relfects on the water, but this is from canoeing to the stilt village. We were going through a tunnel of greenery. Amazing.


This is the stilt village from far away. If you look closely you can see that it is raised up over the water.

10 comments:

Carrie said...

Pictures! I love it! Everything is so...unspoiled. Thanks for posting them. Michael is in the MTC now, I'm heading for home tomorrow.

naive mommy said...

cool pictures anna, if you email me on the weekend use my comcast account
love
mommy

Kim said...

anna, thank you so much for posting pictures! Everything looks gorgeous and you aqre so much better at keeping blogs up than say my dear brother Brandon.

Sara said...

wow. thank you so much for putting up pictures! it all seems so real now!

Kailey said...

that's so incredible. keep taking pictures!

telljbjørn said...

Those pictures were beautiful.


On a completely irrelevant note, i stumbled upon Rayefantine's myspace. She's auditioning for American Idol. That should be fun.

Afterall, girls just want to have fun. lol.

telljbjørn said...

Haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2fJtG8VI3A

Fat Al said...

hey - I can't believe you guys canoed an hour each way into that city! It was absolutely amazing! I actually am surprised, it looks beautiful, and it seems like you can go to a lot of places where there are just no people around, and a lot of beautiful nature. I think the hardest part for me would be those 5 hour bus rides you're talking about, like Stephen Colbert says, "You can't spell emotional abuse without 'bus.'"
I hope married life is treating you and Brandon well - tell him Dan and I say hi!

Fat Al said...

Oh - on an unrelated note, I can't believe you aren't here for the last couple of weeks leading up to the election - it's getting vicious!!! But a ton of people, most recently, Colin Powell, are crossing over - but then of course Rush Limbaugh said he's only voting for Obama cause he's black . . . . but I think we're on our way to restoring dignity to the white house! Unfortunately tho, it looks like prop 8's gonna pass . . I hope you voted before you left!

Fat Al said...

hey - also - I sent an email to you at banananna445@gmail.com - is that something you can check in Africa?