Day 50 (saturday)

Me and the sweetest little girl (I've forgotten her name) in a tro tro on my way to the wedding.

The cathedral where the wedding was.

During the ceremony.

The bride and groom...pretty sure the groom was thinking who the f*&# is this guy (I was the only obruni).

Me and Celine just after the wedding.

My dinner.

 

Woke up at a decent time but didn't sleep much. The manager kid was up singing and shouting and then playing music beyond the time I laid down, incredibly frustrating. I slept for a few hours though. I did my usual routine with oatmeal and coffee and watched the news. Kind of crazy to see news about Utah on Aljazeera, that fire must be pretty bad. I watched battleground and then thought it might be nice to get ready for the day. It's 9:30 now and I'm not sure what the day has in store for us. Maureen was doing some laundry and was talking about going to a wedding or reception and then maybe going into town. Guess we'll see. Maureen came knocking and was ready to go (I still wasn't sure exactly what we were doing) and was dressed nicely, which meant we were going to a wedding. I felt a little out of place (again, aside from the obvious) as I only was wearing jeans and a t-shirt but she assured me it was ok. We got to the place and it was a beautiful building, I was still a bit out of sorts but we sat in the back as the ceremony had already started. It was a long church like procession more than a “typical” wedding. There was a big choir and some guardsmen with swords and fancy hats and a section of men playing horns and trumpets and that didn't even account for the family and friends in the pew. There was lots of sitting and standing and praying and then the service was over. We hadn't seen Celine yet and Maureen suggested that she probably didn't come (I told her that would be kind of crazy to invite us and miss out on her own brother's wedding). We were walking out of the cathedral and sure enough, Celine came over to us, happy to see us. We spent some time with her and took some more pictures and discussed what the rest of our day would look like (I also invited her for dinner tomorrow as she will be heading to the UK on monday and I won't see her again). Maureen and I made our way into town as I wanted to look around at things and fabrics especially. I needed money and didn't make it to the atm on campus but figured I would be ok. We walked around for quite some time and visited several atm's with no luck but finally found one that worked. We made our way around to a couple of shops and I veered off course and bought a pepsi and some noodles and then marched through kejetia looking at all of the different fabrics (it was incredibly overwhelming). On our way through the big market, at one of the outlying storefronts, a lady was interested enough to marry me (I couldn't really understand anything the lady's were saying but Maureen informed me, needless to say, it was a little awkward). I grabbed a few things (met up with some of my old “chums” that wanted to sell me paintings and other artifacts) then went through the market for some food items. We finally made our way back to the house and Maureen made dinner (salad, pasta, and plantanes). I watched the Spain v France match and then Cookie came in (apologizing for not being around to go out and watch the soccer match somewhere besides the house) and told me that there was a celebrity type soccer match at the stadium tomorrow and that we could go around 1. Mommy and daddy and the girls surprised us by stopping by and it was so nice to see them again. I entertained the little ones for a few minutes and then spoke to mommy and daddy. I'm exhausted but not sure if i'll be able to sleep (it's warm and humid).