how to date your wife while living in west africa

Venturing out to celebrate our 11 year anniversary on June 1, 2012.

Drop the kids at the neighbors. Thanks, Audrey & Ron!

Wisk [actually, rattle] her off to town in the Tata.

Go to the nicest restaurant at the [only] Accra Mall .

Sit near the huge sparkling windows so she can ogle every glamorous pair of shoes or dress that passes.

Let her have all the sour cream - and guacamole -while you enjoy the cheese on the appetizer nachos [after 11 years you know she likes that green stuff just as much as cheese]

Join her in ordering just water....our spending does have limits.

Don't complain when she orders a meal more expensive than yours- and it's a salad.

Laugh with her at the ridiculous fountain for hand washing [the kids would've loved it] and the attendant standing guard over it.

Wander into Shoprite [the most 'normal' grocery store in Ghana] & only buy some doodad on clearance. No potatoes. No hotdogs. No pretend butter.

Let her order a ghc 7 caramel latte & be totally cool with the guy making it giving her a wink & dashing her the cost of the flavour and don't roll your eyes when she wonders if they could make it skinny.

Pay waaaay too much for a cinema ticket- but enjoy laughing at a ri-dic-u-lous will smith flick. We take ourselves way too seriously these days. This place is an emotional rollercoaster [only for her of course] & it feels good to just get off for awhile.

Take her up on running through the rain to our India-made luxury pseudo-jeep. Maybe a lady would've chosen waiting for you to pull up at the entrance but this girl has come too far in 11 years to bother with that kind of nonsense.

Last bit? Do this again. Soon.