First Date

So I know we're engaged and we've been boyfriend/girlfriend for like 6 years now, but yesterday Mus and I had our first date. Kind of.

We've never really gone out much, and when we did go out it was always with a big group of people. A few times we've gone out to a restaurant, the two of us, but it's always been low budget and minimal. We just didn't really date, you know? It was never like dinner and a movie, or anything.

Until yesterday. We spent the whole day at the Accra Mall, which was built in the last couple years, and it was a pretty traditional, teenage date. We went to the cinema and saw "The Princess and the Frog-" highly reccomended- and he bought me popcorn and then we walked around the mall and ate ice cream and looked at all the pretty Christmas decoarations and spent like two hours browsing in a bookstore. Granted, we also went and bought our groceries and some Christmas decorations- not typically first date acitivities- but it still felt like we were on a date, like were on a date in America even (well other than the distorted Gospel music blaring in the bookstore). It was really nice.

Then we wrapped the night up with a poker game and beef sausages with the guys. Except I'm the second girl to be included in poker night- soon it will be a coup!

I've said it before but I'm gonna say it again- it gets harder and harder to load websites in cafe's here in Ghana. I think the websites are getting more complex and the companies aren't adding bandwidth to keep up. So blogging might be minimal, depending on what kind of internet opportunities I can dig up.

Things have been great here but busy. Mus and I are spending an inordinate amount of time in Accra, which has been surprisingly enjoyable, at least for Accra. Mus's sister Hamida, now married and pregnant and impossibly happy, is taking some time off work and she invited Mus and I to live with her and her husband in their two bedroom house. It's wonderful. I've always loved Hamida, but this is the first time we've been able to spend significant amounts of time together since her crazy work schedule kept her constantly on the move before.

However, we weren't originally planning to move in with them, and we did pay to rent our apartment in Obo. We recently went to Obo for a weekend to attend the funeral of Mus's grandmother, and after that I've been itching a bit to get up to the cooler weather and calmer life in Obo. So Mus and I are staying in Accra to work on all the things we need to work on, such as finishing up the lawyer documents and planning the details of my family's upcoming visit to Ghana. When we get things sorted out, hopefully right around Christmas, we'll head up to Obo for some relaxation and to make further preparations for the obruni visitors and our engagement party in that area.

Right now the party is set to happen on January 29th.