Pictures, Pictures

Gloria, one of the girls from the Kinder Paradise Orphanage.

Nicholas trying to climb into the car and go with us.
JennyJo and Stephany playing on the new monkey bars!
Mary and Darisia I think this was the fifth or sixth picture we took, they really really love digital cameras!
This ship is one of the largest that comes in and out of this port
there are 11 decks of cars on this ship it's the Grimaldi lines out of Italy.
We went to tour it the other night it was fascinating it's about 3 times the size of the ship we are on with only 31 crew memebers compared to our 300. it was very cool, the cheif engineer of the ship stated that it was a good day because there were so many women on board, there were 4 of us, the most in a long time he said.


This is my friend Drew who leaves tomorrow to go get married! Anyhow he is standing next to a coffin, yes that is a coffin designed for someone who grows vegetables or is a farmer, they have eagle coffins for pastors, cell phones for technology people, lions for village chiefs. You can look at the stories on NPR and BBC or google Ghana fantasy coffins, it seems just a tad ridiculous:)
Monday was my birthday and in true style the ship was full of festivities, in all honesty you can't get away from your birthday here, one of the nurses i work with has a huge collection of mardis gras beads and she handed them out to all of thes people and throughout the day they would come across me in the hall or at mealtime and sneak up on me and throw the beads around my neck it made me kind of paranoid actually.
I was sung to at lunch by the entire crew and that morning by the medical staff and later that night by the nurses and then by a bunch of friends that took me out after my shift was over. All in all it was a great day oh and I got phone calls from Mom Luke and little bro Cole that was exciting!! Thanks to everyone else that tried to call and couldn't get through. Cheers!!