We made it to the beach after the market - for another pleasant and scenic lunch!

I just love being by the water - it's so nice.  And this part of the beach was surprisingly clean.  Usually the beaches right in Accra are more polluted and dirty.

Here is our market group: friend from the UK, myself, Sara's mom (visiting from the states!), Sara, and Meg.  We decided this arch had to mean something important to Ghana - so we "decided" / fabricated the story that it was built to commemorate the first Christian marriage in Ghana.  Nice story - but we really don't know anything about the importance of the arches.

After being here so long, and understanding the culture here more (and after having plenty Ghanaian people yell at me for taking their picture, "We are not animals in the zoo!")  I find myself less motivated to take pictures out in the open at the market.  So, here are the few that I did take this trip.  These are the "colonial" figures - which the British trained the Ghanaians to create years ago, when Ghana was being "colonized." 

Here are some carved wood masks, and some tro-tro's made out of cans.

And, here are some pictures of the ever eventful real life tro-tro rides:

This one had the back doors tied shut - because there is so much stuff inside!

So, crazy Monday at the market, back to school today :)