Aburi :)

Sorry about this post being a little late-- I've started to get quite busy here! I can explain that more later. I want to tell you about my trip to Aburi this weekend. Aburi is a village up in the hills about 45 minutes away from Accra. My roommate Kristen and I went together on Sunday and it was amazing! We first went to the botanical garden and it was soo nice! It was refreshing to be away from the city with all its people and noise and pollution. The air up there felt so crisp and clean! The garden wasn't all that big, but there were some pretty cool looking trees and plants! There was randomly a crashed helicopter in one part. We never found out the story behind that, but it was interesting. We both really wished we would have taken our journals up there because there were so many serene places that would have been perfect for some writing! Maybe next time we can do that. 

After we walked around the garden, we went on a bike tour! They gave us bikes and helmets and we set off to a waterfall! It was AWESOME!! We got to ride through a bunch of small villages and everywhere we went the kids would start jumping up and down, clapping and yelling OBRUNI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at the top of their lungs! Here in Accra the kids say obruni, but there they were beyond excited!!! We were 4 in group counting Kristen and myself and then two other Americans that joined us, so we were a little obruni parade through the villages! They seriously loved it! The waterfall wasn't very big but it was still suuuper nice! We were deep in the vegetation and had to lock our bikes up then walk down to it because there wasn't really a trail or anything anymore. It was beautiful!!! We stayed there for maybe half an hour and we even got to get in the water!! It wasn't very deep so I didn't get my clothes wet, but it felt sooo nice and cool! I was really really happy to be there, it was incredible! 

After our time at the waterfall we rode back to the rental shop and it started POURING DOWN RAIN!!! We might as well have jumped in the waterfall because I was soaking wet by the end of it! It was so so so so fun, though!! I loved it! We ate lunch in Aburi and tried to dry off a little bit and then just came back to campus. I fell asleep on the trotro on the way home, so I even got a little nap in. It was the perfect day! :) 

I will try to post this week again to tell you about my weekday activities :)