Ghana's Birthday

I have attempted to add a video this time....we will see if it uploads.....its a very very blurry shot of the plane soaring overhead and the jets with the Ghana coloured smoke, but I did not capture it well

Anyway, today is a public holiday to celebrate Ghana's 52nd birthday, their independance was in 1957 from Britain.

So we went down the what is called Independance Square, a massive space with some stadium kind of seating and a monument or two, to watch them hold their parades and speeches or whatever....

Was expecting a lot more people, but there were still a lot around, lucky for us we got seats out of the sun.

It was strange that as this was an independance celebration, to me all seemed very English, with uniformed marching and brass bands, a real military type show off thing, but possibly if we'd stayed for the whole thing they may have been some actual African type stuff....

Anyway, back to Cape Coast tomorrow, to have a better look around that city, staying hopefully in a place where you can pat crocodiles....

Photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/emmajaynedavidson/GhanaIndependanceDay#