Togo!

The Africa Mercy has landed!!! We have arrived in Togo on schedule. We aren't allowed off the ship yet but we are docked and tied up and the gangway is down. It was a really smooth ride into the port. Saw lots of fishing boats with their nets and a very large turtle! (I will post pictures later today.) We were greeted on the dock by many people and a band. It is such an amazing experience to pull into a dock and know that you were called here for such a time as this. The port authorities have used shipping crates to form walls so we will be safe walking around our part of the dock. If you look out one side of the ship, it is the port. Lots of large ships and containers and on the other side of the ship is farmland and the beach not too far away. I love West Africa and even though the second you step outside you are drenched in sweat, you get used to it pretty quick knowing that this is just the way it is and you better embrace it or it will drive you crazy. It is so great to see dry land!!!