weekend in the capital city

We have a great family back home (and friends too!). There were some things that didn't make it in our suitcases when we first came here and some things we've realized we wanted/needed since arriving. Not to mention, adding a pregnancy to the mix and things that come along with it. Our great family and friends compiled all of those things, packed them in a suitcase, and got them to a group in the states coming for a trip. We had to go to the capital city to pick it up from the group and decided to treat ourselves with some time away.

When we got to town, the family we traveled with took us to get pizza. This was awesome, because of course I had been craving pizza :) I like all sorts of pizza back home, but the one time I've ordered pizza here it took an hour to make and ended up being the wrong thing. Here, we were easily able to order, watch them make our pizza, put it in the oven, and it was out all within 15-20 minutes. And it was delicious!

Delicious, yummy, satisfying pizza

The first night we stayed at an American hotel. It was a little pricey, but we decided to treat ourselves :) The room was nothing fancy, but it did have AC, TV, and room service. There was an American style steak house at the hotel that we splurged at for dinner. I'm not necessarily a steak fan, but this steak was pretty dang good. And Trey was more than happy with his steak.

the bread!

Kristen's steak

Trey's steak & baked potatoes - with the works

The next morning we spent some time walking around the hotel, deciding on what all the foreigners were doing there. We headed to our company's guest house before lunch to meet the group that brought our goodies. To get there, we used an old fashion GPS, a.k.a. me & a map. We're lucky we made it there since I'm horrible with directions :) We had so much fun sorting through everything that was sent to us. We spent time with the group talking about what they're doing here and hearing their heart for all to hear the Good News.

GPS

Our goodies - filled with maternity clothes, new clothes for Trey,
supplies, sheets, painting canvases, and so much more!

Happy Trey with his new hat 

new rainbows = excited floridians 

We didn't go out until after 4:00 since it was Friday afternoon and half the city closes down for Friday Mosque. We've seen a lot of mosque's since being here, but this one is by far the most beautiful. It's the national mosque. Looking at it I thought it's so sad that something so beautiful on the outside can teach something so deceitful.

Saturday we spent driving around, enjoying the "modern" city. Seriously, with it's divided highways, smooth roads, big buildings, almost constant power, and some decent public transportation, it's the most modern city we've been in here. We even were taken to a grocery store that could make us forget we're in West Africa, that is until the power went out and they switched to the generator :) We made our way over to another restaurant where we enjoyed some delicious humus dip - comparable to Red Elephant's humus dip. We were even offered ice for our drinks. We just looked at each other and laughed. We decided against the ice since we weren't sure if it came from filtered water, but just to be offered it was nice.

What, you mean you've never seen a soccer game in the middle of an off ramp?

public restroom - or lack thereof.

Humus & Pita Bread

We really enjoyed the time away and yes, we realize that a lot of it was focused on food :) We are excited that we get to go back this weekend since we are flying out for some training. We hear there's a pretty awesome pool at a different hotel that we plan to spend some time at :)