Day 3: Arrival in Accra

We are here, we are in our hotel, and are in an internet cafe that's a 2 minute walk from our hotel. We had an uneventful but exhausting flight down here, and a relatively eventful hotel run-around last night, when our reserved hotel did not have a room for us, and so took us to another hotel, where we ended up sleeping, having breakfast (toast with butter and jam and dry frosted flakes), and our hotel came to pick us up this morning to bring us to our new and much nicer room for the rest of the week. Archer is still working on them to get us to reimburse us for the room that we did not sleep in, not the cheaper room we did sleep in. We spent the morning settling in, cleaning up, and napping. Last night we did have a minor scare when we realized we lost Lily's little backpack, which I thought had the anti-malarial meds for Arch and Lily, and Lily's benadryl. Turns out the meds were in the big backpack, and this morning the bag was found and brought to us from the cab driver who had ferried us between hotels. We're glad to have Lily's magnadoodle, bibs, and two books back. :)

We had a yummy Ghanaian lunch of Kelewele (fried plaintains), jollof rice (took an houra nd ahalf and is REALLY spicy) and chicken kabobs, plus some fresh bananas and a mango that Arch bought on the street (and we washed appropriately). Lily and I are going to go take a nap and relax this afternoon, our tour of Accra is planned for tomorrow (a change b/c of last nights' events), and Arch skipped the pre-conference events today in order to help get everything settled. He's planning to go while we nap to register at the conference and will likely go to the evening presenters' dinner while Lily and I chill at the hotel. It's been good for Lily to have a more unstructured day after our 2.5 days of travel.

Pray we can get Lily on a good schedule here and that our hotel and Archer's conference stuff goes well. Also pray that I can get acclimated and feel comfortable knowing how/where to go shopping, etc around town and doing stuff.

Praise God for our safety and comfort now!