Passport not ready!!!

Passport failed! So now I wait till Monday to see if the Embassy process will churn it out for me. Ghana immigration are waiting to stamp it for exit purposes and have been very helpful.

We have this bio check quality thing in the passport process which wasn't explained very well to me. It has to scan and authorise the quality via London for issue of the passport, well this process took too long and the Embassy closes at 1:00pm on a Friday - I dashed accross town to be at the Embassy in the last ditched hope that in the last opening minutes this approval would be issued.

I am very dissappointed about it. But it's just a day at present. Flight is changed. The photo here is the TULIP Hotel in Accra, where I sat for a while one evening this week with the MD and his family who are over for a visit.

Ghana does have it's own contrasts and is not all on the poverty or broken scale. Over the peaceful years, more so in this millenium the Ghanaians have built up their own middle class from hard word and good industry. And though a white face is common in these paradise style hotels they are not alone.

This photo though a bit blurred portrays a very relaxing and luxurious spot..think I'll take a break again here between now and Monday night...

Tomorrow: I've been invited to help do a food visit at 7:00am at an orphage for HIV children in Madina a suburb north of Accra. Can't wait, I need a hug as much as they do I think.....