Scenery of Ghana

When we arrived in November it was during the harmattan. That is a dry season where the winds of the Sahara dessert blow across the skiies for about 3-4 months. Finally the rainy season started. It is much prettier. Everything has turned green and the trees blossomed. When it rains the temperatures cool down to a more comfortable level. We love to hear the rain come....coming from Washington, that is a switch! At home we relished the sunshine, in Ghana we look for shade! :-) We drove to a lake about an hour from here. It was a beautiful volcano lake. We also were taught about the cocoa pod tree and tasted a cocoa pod.

Making bread

Down the road from us about a mile is a lady named Reggie. Her husband was a doctor but has passed away. She has an oven behind her home where she and her helpers make bread twice a week. They make the dough one day. Then about 2:30AM they build a fire in the oven and get it hot. About 6AM they remove the fire and put in the bread to bake. At 9:00 they bag it and send it to market stores to sell. I like to go over in the mornings and get a fresh loaf

of baked bread. It is really quite good.