Claire gets a bucket bath!

And I keep posting to the wrong site :p

Went for a walk to find a 3g signal

So I could skype in for the health team summit. Hmmm, right near the water tap though, this place I've found is kind of noisy... Oh well, I brought headphones. I snapped a pic or two along the way

Katie and Claire have arrived!

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And some fun pics from last night, more later, we are in the airport waiting on our flight to kumasi....

Yanis' pretty pretty princess bed

De Pat Palace is all ready for a sleepover!

Africa Pics

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Back in Bonsaaso

Well, here I am back in Ghana! I've landed safr and sounds and enjoyed my sweet suite in Nairobi for the very short time I got to enjoy it. So, let's see, I've been traveling with Yanis and Nella two collegues who are working on the Tropical Labs Initiative which I am going to be helping to develop a SMS based labs component for. But you can read about that later on Childcount.org later, I guess I need to chat about the other stuff that's been going on. So, I stayed in Kumasi for a couple of nights which was fun, went out to a great Indian place called Moti Mahal, and strangely enough, every single person I've ever met who has traveled in Kumasi have all independently mentioned this place as great and said that they wanted to go there. It's really good. Patty, Beth and I went there during the first round of Ghana visit and then again with Yanis and Nela. Also went to the Max Something hotel for Lebanese which was awesome too. Now I'm back in the field and attending a conference call on internet which is way to spotty to hear everything, and working on drawing out the specs for the software. We are staying in De Pat Palace tonight which has a hell of a reputation among my coworkers and sets a new low bar for customer service. But with the addition of Yanis, it's really funny (those who know him will know what I mean, he has a super dry sense of humor), I'll be posting a pic of his gorgeous bedspread which made me make My Little Ponies and Barbie's Malibu Dream Hotel jokes the whole way to the office. Funny, the place has crap for service and the cook may or may not be working tonight, but the rooms are pretty big and nice (but who knows how clean). So, everything is going well, I took a look at a house today which was super nice, but damn did they want too much cash for it, so I'm thinking of a slightly clever approach :) Anyway, pics to follow!

Mix up in Accra

Well I've landed in Accra, and had a great flight from Nairobi where I sat next to the former head of UNDP for all of Africa, we had a very nice chat. Well, when I landed in Accra, and tried to check in fire my flight to Kumasi, they told me I was supposed to fly in the morning, and the next treetop flights are full, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that someone doesn't show, but I might need to shift to the bus our try and go tomorrow (though I don't have money left for a hotel) on the plus side the hiring process is nearly complete, I start on monday as long as they don't need me to come back to NYC for paper work.

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We have decided to try a new format as the old one wasn't exactly great with poor internet connections. So, welcome to the new blog! I'm back in Kisumu , Kenya for one more day, off to Nairobi this evening, tomorrow Accra and then Kumasi. Whew, I'm going to be "knackared" I'm not sure how you spell that, but my new buddy Big Claire (not to be confused with the baby) has been introducing me to all kinds of fun English Slang. I might get Twatted tonight, aaaaaand, I think I forget the rest. Anyhow, Welcome to the new blog! Oh, and we've set it up to autopost onto the old blogger site. toddlertraveldiaries.posterous.com is the new one!