Home In Ho

Wow, our computer finally downloaded some photos so I'm posting som of our home here in Ho.  They'll be more to come later.  It is okay, when I use the word okay, that means that by African standards it is good, but by American standards, well... I don't know if you can tell from the photo, we have a 2 car garage.  Only, there are steps leading up the the doors, so lots of luck parking a car in there, plus the doors are very small.  The front of our house faces the street, which is the  main road to Accra, so needless to say, it's pretty busy, and at all times of the day and night.

This is the other side of the front.  The living room is behind the archway and the end part that you see is the guest bedroom, so anyone that wants to come, we have room for you.  All you have to do is pay a huge amount for the airline tickets, get 7 different shots and you can come.

 This is the view from our backyard.  On the left there is a lime tree, sort of.  It hasn't been taken care of very well so it has fallen down.  I guess they forgot to prune and dig and graft and dung about the tree.  It has produced some fruit, but they are very small. 

But we do have a wall around our place and a front gate.  So that makes it very safe, but also a pain in the you know where, because every time we come and go, I get the pleasure of getting out of the vehicle and opening the gate, then closing it after we go through.  Plus there is a hill to go up out of our gate.  No automatic door openers here.  Although I did see one at the Vodafone store.  The man sat in a gate shack and had a rope that he pulled on to open the gate. 

 A view from our living room, into the dining room.

 The kitchen.  And you'll notice Jessie is in her appropriate place.  We are just starting to clean things up and put them away.  Or should I say, Jessie is, while I'm taking the pictures.  We have a small refrigerator, all the appliances are small here, a microwave and a propane stove.  Still looking for the dishwasher though.  Oh, I found it, he's the one taking the pictures.

And this is the bedroom.  Notice the romantic covering we have to put over our bed at night.  It is called a mosquito net.  They are mandatory, unless of course, you want to have malaria.  Not at the present.  We have still yet to get everything put away, but we are working on it. 
Well, this is going to be our home for the next 18 months, unless the mission president decides differently.  There is this little disclaimer at the bottom of our call that says all assignments are at the discretion of the mission president.  Another little secret they don't tell you.