Flat Stanley Pictures!

I am running out of time (what else is new???) but I figured out how to get some pictures up. Matt, I don't know if these will work or not for Flat Stanley because the files are so small (it was the only way I could get them on the internet at all because the connection is so slow here- e-mailing multiple files was out of the question). Please send me an e-mail letting me know if these are OK or if you would like me to try e-mailing them again... we'll see!

Anyway, the following are a small sample from the trip so far. A long blog will be up in the next few days detailing my adventures in the north. Enjoy!


Kakum National Park, one of three rain forest canopy walks in the world

Kwame Nkrumah's masoleum behind his statue and a pot with the emblem for Ghana's 50th anniversary of their independence

Sitting at a weaving loom that is
used to weave Kente (pronounced ken-tay) cloth in a workshop
in Bonwire, Ghana, the birthplace of Kente. Kente is a long
tradition of the Ashanti people of Ghana, and each pattern
has a different meaning. Some patterns are so special that
only the kings and queens can wear them!

A crocodile in a low lying pond.
The water is so low because it is the end of the dry season
in Ghana. (Alex- Ghana is very near to the equator, so they don't
have seasons like we do in Minnesota. There are two rainy
and two dry seasons in Ghana.) There were A TON of
crocodiles in this pond, but they were all hiding except for
this guy. The crocodiles in this particular pond eat fish
and frogs, and I was told by a local from the town of
Gwollu, where the pond is located, that these crocodiles
don't eat humans and that the children of the village even
pull on their tails as a game- yikes!

Gaston in an elephant footprint

DK, our guide through the park, looking for signs of an elephant trail in the afternoon of the first day in Mole

Gaston and I with an elephant in the background, the morning of our second day in Mole

A closer look at the elephant. Not long after this picture was taken, he charged my group- twice! It was pretty thrilling. Yay Ghana!