Man, oh man, how great would it have been to sleep in on a day that we didn't have to go to the worksite? Unfortunately someone forgot to share the memo with Senor Rooster! He woke us up a little before 5am (getting later each day... maybe he's getting a bit lazy!) but we went back to sleep. A few people awoke early enough to go to church but seeing as church STARTED @ 7:30am, I was ALL set. NaNa showed up at about 10 to take us on an adventure. When he saw me he said "man, you must be sore!" I chuckled and said "nope, it was amazing, thank you for organizing such a great experience." WE loaded up into Nana's van and we were off. We had learned earlier in the week that The Ivory Coast (Cote-d'Ivoire) border was only about 7km from our village. We all wanted to go!!! Nana agreed to take us there just in case there were any problems, he could use his chiefly powers to rescue us :) It's a good thing we had him... one of the border guards was one of his former students and Nana was able to sneak us across the border! :)
There is about 3 miles of "no man's land" between the two countries but there is a line (well, let's be honest here... it is a crack in the earth that they told us was the border!) that we were able to cross. While walking up to the "line" Nana and Jennifer and I were walking together. Nana said "you see these goats, we do not know if they are Ghanaian goats or Ivory Coast goats because they roam freely between the countries." Jennifer said "Maybe we should ask them for their passports!" And the chief (in all his regal chief-ly-ness) said (well, he commanded really) "Hey you... goats... show me your passports" while wagging his finger at them. Jennifer and I just about died laughing! Nana cracks me up! HE has such a GREAT sense of humor!! So now I can say that I've also been to the Ivory Coast! :) (these pics are of us straddling the border!) 
On the way back to the house, 7kn felt like 40km! The road was really rutted and washed out in some areas.
Once back at the house, a wood carving vendor came and we were able to do some shopping... I love how the shops come to us! :) After that, Jennifer, Hailey, Karen and I played Uno in our room. It was nice to just relax and enjoy each others company! Once everyone was home we ate dinner and then Nana came back over. He partook in some of the box wine I was drinking and a handful of us sat around just talking with him about his experiences as Chief and different places he has traveled to. I think we went to bed around 9:30pm.
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