Friday 24 December 2010

1st Christmas in Ouaga

Our first Christmas in Ouagadougou
We've been enjoying the clement weather (nights down to 17 and the pool a chilly now 22)

Our local supermarket (Bingo) which opened the week we moved in has been slowly building up a head of steam and now has fully stocked shelves and food in the chiller cabinet

They've gone a bit OTT on the Christmas preparations






scary Nazi saluting Santa


lots of expensive import goodies, but what the hell this gelified rat is supposed to represent I don't know

Ouaga corners have sprung up grottos, concrete and or paper mache, and so bad they are just bad, but not yet good...corners also sport blow up santas, and spindly trees (see vid 2 below if you dare)
lots of lights around the city, pity they can't afford basic infrastructure though...



thousand apologies for the videos, I'm no Scorsese obviously.

2 comments:

The Toes said...

Love the santa's in the video!!
Videos are like mine!!!! We did the same thing at Virginia Beach with the lights...

Perhaps you could sell the rats the cats bring home... that is one scary rat!!
Hope you have had a great day:)
xx

Anonymous said...

Hiya Haze,

Amazing what Christmas can do to normal people ... brilliant selection of pictures and footage. At first I thought it was a small pig ... but the notion that it's a rat put me right off my breakfast.
Hope you've had a good Christmas. Many receptions/party's to attend?

love, Nienke