Ghana part 2

We just left Brazil.  ☹  This is so depressing.  It’s our last port but it hasn’t hit me yet.  Like, where did the last 4 months of my life go?  I have always had a countdown going until the trip but I never thought that it would end so quickly…considering it took FOREVER for it to begin.  I honestly had a countdown going for like a year in advance.  Ugh it’s just so crazy!  Like when I leave this boat I really am not coming back… it’s not like at Monmouth where I leave for a semester or summer and I return… I’m not coming back to the boat.  CRAZY!
But enough about that…let me finish Ghana so I can fill you in on BRAZIL!
The 2nd night in Ghana was Jaime’s 21st birthday.  We stayed in a hotel where there was a casino and i gambled for my first time!  and i was up!  and then i lost it.  Granted i also only gambled with like 20 bucks but still.  I got up to as high as 40!  The next day started with us laying by the pool for about an hour until check out. After laying out by the pool we decided to go to some museum that one of the tour guides at the hotel suggested.  It was for the first president of Ghana.  It was the most bizarre museum ever.  Hahah.  Like it was a park and then we walked under this statue type thing and then it was his tomb and next to that was his wife’s also.  And then his car was just randomly parked there.  And then we went into a building and it was all pictures of him and his furniture from when he was in office.  It was just very bizarre that the car that he used to drive was just parked under a tree.  It was interesting though because we learned about him and we have never heard of him and our tour guide was shocked that we have never heard about him.  We also have never heard about any of the leaders that were in the pictures with him.  There was also a tree planted by Nelson Mandela in the park.  After the museum we just went to the Accra mall for a little before going back to the ship. 
        The last day I went to the beach with Amy and Katie.  And basically the markets came to us.  Haha.  There were so many vendors and people selling stuff on the beach they would just come up to us with their stuff and we didn’t even have to move from our beach chairs.  I went in the ocean but not far but the water was very warm!  We were at the beach until about 2 when we went back to where the shuttle was to catch the 3 oclock shuttle back to the ship.  In all, Ghana was really good.  I’m really glad I got to go there and see REAL Africa and something other than South Africa.  The only sucky part though was that there was always so much driving and traffic that it was hard to do a lot in a such a short time.  Each day you really only had enough time to do 1 or 2 things because it depended on what part of the country you were going to and with traffic and there was so much i still wanted to do but there was not time!  But I’m really glad we got to go. 
So that is Ghana! 
Brazil will be coming shortly. 
Now I am on the ship for the next 9 days, and then to FLORIDA.  This is just insane.