Safely Here

After the 10 hour red eye flight from JFK to Ghana last night we have arrived to sunny, HOT Accra.  (90 degrees and like 8000% humidity) I will no longer complain about the cold spring weather we have been having in Wisconsin!  We moved pretty quickly, I thought, through immigration and customs and one of the Bethany Christian Services workers was waiting for us when we exited and she took us to checkin to our hotel.  On the drive we learned that we would not be meeting our daughter today as the Bethany staff in Michigan had told us we probably would.  That was disappointing but we are trusting God's timing for our first meeting tomorrow.  (a shower and a good night's sleep will be good too!)  We will meet the other Bethany workers at their offices tomorrow and then go to meet her in the afternoon.

The drive from the airport to the hotel took about 30 minutes and was very enlightening for us to see some of the Ghanaian culture and the buildings and homes.  Greg was just reading something online that Ghana has one of the highest GDP(Gross Domestic Product) per capita and the fastest growing economy in all of Africa.  I was shocked.  Really brought it home to me (again) how lavishly we live.  I thought many times about our new daughter and the condtions she may have been living in before she was given to Bethany's care.

We stopped at a little grocery store and bought a few snacks and bottled water.  That was a fun experience for Greg & I since we hadn't really looked much at the currency.  I'm hoping the checkout girl was honest.  ;)   Seems like we actually got quite a good deal now that we look at our receipt - tons of water and a few snacks for what equals about $7, and that is the only money we spent today after eating breakfast on the plane and just having jitters and no appetite.  I'm not sure we'll dare the hotel restaurant tonight, may just eat PB&J in our room to make sure our stomachs feel good for tomorrow.  After the sun got lower we sat outside around the pool and listened to the sounds of Accra.  (horns, happy yelling, etc. :)  We are hoping to be able to Facetime with our kids when they get out of school so we are just pretty much waiting around for that time to roll around.  Other than that Greg just made my day by figuring out how to watch the season finale of The Amazing Race on his iPad to pass time tonight. :)

Thanks for all of the support - I can't figure out how to get pictures attached to this blog with this computer so I'll put some on Facebook instead.

Robin (& Greg)