With a ship holiday and Amy visiting we went to visit Porto Novo for a change. Firstly we went to the botanical gardens which Tom and I had visited on summer programme. We went armed with plenty of bananas and a couple of our own little (and one fairly big) monkeys to try and encourage the monkeys to come and play. Here is Sam helping Joshua feed one...
And Tommy feeding one...ok so you get the idea...there were lots of monkeys...lots of picture taking...no bananas left for lunch...lots of very full monkeys...so then we had some lunch sitting in the peace and quiet of the garden and let the boys play...lovely times with friends and family...
...then John and Bethany decided it would be fun to buy the thing the lady was selling...she didn't mind having her picture taken...but we have no idea what it was we were all eating...some kind of fruity sludge...which she suggested we were not eating the proper way - as we should really have taken it home and mixed it with milk or ice cream...anyway...if you look carefully you get the idea of how lots of things are sold in little bags like this and carried on the head...
...so then we looked for the Ethnographic museum, taking a rather more interesting route than the guide book suggested (note - do not give the map to Sam unless you wish to ensure your children have their weeks worth of exercise on one day), getting a bit more of a feel for the town and not actually having enough time left to visit the museum...so we kept walking...had the opportunity to buy some live chicks that two ladies were carrying on their heads - who declined the opportunity to have their photo taken in the same way that we declined the chicks...and finally got back to the car at the same time as a fan ice man which was a lot more appealing than the chicks...And that was another day in Africa :-)
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